Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia University, that yeasty pot of progressive ideas, President Roosevelt dipped such potent Brain Trusters as Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (see p. 55), Abraham S. Hewitt, Leo Wolman, Blackwell Smith. But Columbia was still left with a good supply of bright young professors who were disgruntled with the old order, passionately dedicated to the new. Last week many of them moved in a body to Cleveland, where the Progressive Education Association and the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence were convening. There they planted in the educational world the same kind of ideas which...
...decade of scheming by Julie O'Donnell brought her youngest son not only the small holdings of his father, but the name and run-down estate of her sisters as well. Instead of working his property, Leo Fox-Donell spent his time tippling and wenching. More through inertia than patriotism he drifted into a secret political society and organized a raid on a police garrison. It failed when he stopped for a drink with his men before going to the ambush. He was still drinking when the police took him in. During his years in an English prison Leo lost...
Divorced. Actor & Director Kenneth Mackenna (Leo Mielziner Jr.); by Cinemactress Kay Francis, 30; in Los Angeles. It was her third divorce. Grounds: nagging, criticism of her acting, her clothes...
George Ford and Leo Ecker, the two stars from Belmont High, were up to their usual standard, each one accounting for two of the Crimson tallies. Carpenter was outstanding for the Interscholastics...
Last week Leo Thomas Crowley had a good laugh on his fellow bankers. In solemn conclave at a meeting of the American Bankers Association in Chicago last summer they had resolved that in their "deliberate judgment" deposit in surance involved dangers both "genuine and serious." And ever since Jan. 1 when limited Federal deposit insurance became effective for $15,345,832,955 in 54,000,000 accounts, the bankers have been holding their breath waiting for the first crash. Up to this week not one of the 13,431 insured banks throughout the land had closed its doors...