Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Virginia Senator Borah last week played hardly a happier role than he did in Ohio. In a Statewide Presidential primary poll he swept all before him, his only opponent being one Leo J. Chassee of Milwaukee, Wis. This was no great triumph, however, because: 1) Franklin D. Roosevelt polled nearly three votes to Borah's one; 2) the name of Alfred Mossman Landon was reported written in on many a Republican ballot, but since West Virginia law does not recognize write-ins, the Landon votes were not counted; 3) in the election of the State...
...Lamb, chancellor of the archdiocese since 1926, was consecrated auxiliary bishop, assuming the post Bishop O'Hara relinquished when he was sent to Georgia. Another prelate from the tight, self-sufficient archdiocese of Philadelphia's Denis Cardinal Dougherty moved up in the hierarchy when Most Rev. George Leo Leech became Bishop of Harrisburg, succeeding the late Bishop Philip Richard McDevitt. After a month at his new job Bishop Leech astounded his 200 priests by calling each correctly by his first name as he knelt to kiss the Episcopal ring...
...Some European states have made alcohol mixtures mandatory. In the U. S. alcoholic gasoline is a subject of controversy among fuel chemists, their views depending on whether their allegiance is to farm or refinery. Completely contradictory statements on alcohol blends were uttered from the same platform last week by Leo Martin Christensen of the Farm Chemurgic Council and Dr. Gustav Egloff of Universal Oil Products...
John M. Callaway, Alfred H. Corbett, Perry James Culver, Thomas J. Darcey, Jr., Emile Dubiel, Leo A. Ecker, William B. Emmons, Jr., James A. Field, George S. Ford, James A. Ford, Bennett Frankel, Brice A. Frey, Jr., James J. Fuld, Colmery Gibson, Francis A. Goodhue, Jr., Hamilton Hadden, Jr., James B. Hallett, Robert C. Holcombe, David L. Howe, Thomas B. Husband...
Before Richard Leo Simon and M. (for Max) Lincoln Schuster formed a publishing firm in Manhattan a dozen years ago, nervous young Simon had been a salesman for Aeolian pianos, shrewd young Schuster a newshawk who played the violin for fun. Though they never play together, Publishers Simon & Schuster are both still impassioned amateurs of music. Lately it became evident that the duet, whose profitable puzzle-&-game volumes set the book-publishing business by its ears, was venturing into the stodgy realm of music publishing...