Word: leos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political tangle which precipitated Merry del Val on his so-glittering early career. Cardinal Rampolla was expected to succeed to the papacy when Leo XIII died in 1903. But objections were raised and the election finally went to Giuseppe Sarto, a simple priest, peasant by birth, peasant-hearted to the end of his days...
...Leo J. McGinn was carrying the air mail from Cleveland to Chicago. He ran into a snowstorm and a 50 m. p. h. gale near Huron, Ohio, lost control of his plane. It fell on an apple tree, caromed into a barn owned by an undertaker. Pilot McGinn was decapitated as he was thrown from the cockpit. The barn, the plane and the mail bags burned quickly in the cold, whistling night...
...Leo Hendrik Baekeland, 65, knew tropical oils and resins. He worked with formaldehyde and phenol until he created a new kind of resin. He called it Bakelite...
...Other developments in a week of early season activity included a rumor that Princeton would disown the famed huddle-system which it began to use long before its puzzled rivals. Also the sixth and seventh casualties of the football season took place in hospitals. Leo Goodreau, 19, died of a broken neck in Philadelphia, calling the signals for the play in which he had been hurt. In Washington, Pa., William Charles Young had his back broken in a scratch game. In Orange, N. J., another casualty occurred. A man in a cinema theatre, watching a picture of Bruce Caldwell playing...
Appointments and commissions filled William Howard Taft's years-the Philippine Commission, first Governor of the Philippines, a conference with Pope Leo XIII. President Roosevelt made him secretary of War in 1904-an amiable Mars indeed who made empiric yet cherubic sidetrips to Cuba, Panama and Porto Rico. Wherever he went, he acquired weight and respect...