Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respects. As they acquire prestige, directors acquire specialties. Capra's is a certain kind of peculiarly American, peculiarly kinetic humor, in which the most individual characteristic is an extraordinarily adroit and constant use of "business" to accent the comic line. Unlike Gregory La Cava (Stage Door) or Leo McCarey, whose The Awful Truth took top honors for direction at the Academy this year, Capra has no interest in jokes whose appeal is touched with neuroticism. He is sufficiently versatile to have made a successful picture from a story as fantastic as James Hilton's Lost Horizon...
Affectionately called "Ding Ding" by his cronies because he was once a trolley-car conductor, Charles Leo ("Gabby") Hartnett has been the most popular player on the Chicago Cubs since the day he first appeared at training camp as a grinning, chattering rookie in 1922. One of the greatest catchers of all time, with a lifetime batting average of .300, 200-lb. Gabby Hartnett, still grinning, last week succeeded Charlie Grimm as manager of the team to which he has devoted his whole major-league career...
...immediately apparent that Acting Comptroller Marshall Diggs, FDIC Chairman Leo Crowley and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau preferred to regard bank regulations as safeguards for depositors. Last week, after hot & heavy debate, the four reached a compromise "through the usual democratic processes of give & take." The National Association of Supervisors of State Banks approved. So did Franklin Roosevelt. The new rules go into effect July first. Important changes...
With the bases loaded, with two out and the count two and two, Pitcher Vander Meer, who had struck out seven batters, thereupon made the pitch of his young lifetime, a fast one. Dodger Leo Durocher, a dangerous man in a pinch, brought ear-splitting Brooklyn cheers as he was put out on a fly to center. Young Johnny Vander Meer had won (6-to-0) his second no-hit, no-run game. Far, far rarer than two holes-in-one at golf, two loos at trapshooting, two 300s at bowling, it is the pinnacle of U. S. sporting performance...
...Diggs and Mr. Eccles are now on a committee with Chairman Leo Crowley of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Economic Adviser Cyril Upham of the Treasury for the specific purpose of rearranging and simplifying bank examinations and investment policies. Arrayed with Mr. Diggs are Messrs. Crowley and Upham. Mr. Eccles is a distinct minority. When the committee sends its report to President Roosevelt Mr. Eccles will probably send a report too. Mr. Roosevelt will then have to decide between stiff bank control and easy money...