Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican side Pin No. 1 is Lawyer C. Wayland Brooks, who as an assistant State's Attorney helped secure the conviction of Leo Brothers for the murder of Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter. Pin No. 2 is onetime (1921-29) Governor Len Small, who ruled Illinois as head of a malodorous Republican machine, but to whom the farmers of Illinois are still grateful for the concrete roads he built...
...delusion that naturally arises from the primitive power of this picture. One sees the Jews abandoning ghettoes and launching into robust pioneering, and one forgets that there are still throngs of them in homelessness and persecution. One forgets, that is, until reminded that the picture is produced by Leo Herman for the Palestine Foundation Fund, largely to allow Jews to escape from Germany. If the facts do not substantiate the impression given of a great folk migration, still it is true that the last two decades have seen inspiring fruits of an inspired determination to break away from the sackcloth...
...every man is king and nobody is a millionaire, but successful writers are sitting pretty. Next to Maxim Gorky the Soviet author with the most thronelike seat is Alexei Tolstoi. Distantly related to the late great Leo (Anna Karenina), he enjoys a national success surpassing his great namesake's. Leo...
...popular songwriters who has had thorough classical training. He studied at Manhattan's Institute of Musical Art. To earn a living, he took a job as a pianist in the First Little Show (1929), wrote Moanin' Low for Libby Holman. For Paramount Rainger and his lyricist Leo Robin wrote June in January, Love in Bloom and the songs Gladys Swarthout sang in Rose of the Rancho. When Paramount wants swing music, Mack Gordon and Harry Revel are set to work. Clowning at parties pleases them more. With little urging Gordon will hoist his 317 Ib. up onto...
Feeling that the Junior Varsity riders could have won the play offs in the Class B League Saturday night if Leo Boylo had not appeared in the Cavalry lineup, Captain Charles Palmer, Crimson polo coach, has filed a protest of the game...