Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week her bones lay in Rio's cathedral, where she was baptized and married. At the foot of her coffin lay the rose of solid gold awarded her by Pope Leo II after she had signed the Golden Law. For three days Brazilians of all colors, free men all, passed in mournful procession. Said the rector of the University of Brazil: "Greater than the empire she lost was her title, Isabel the Redemptress...
...parents named him Ernst Paul Walter Ulbricht when he was born in 1893, but in later years he got to be known by many aliases-Comrade Cell, Comrade Motor, Sorenson, Urvich, Leo (and, behind his back, Billy Goat). At 15, he joined a workers' youth organization, at 17, the German Woodworkers' Union. At 19, he joined the Social Democratic Party, where he got acquainted with Das Kapital. When a renegade bloc of Socialists merged with Rosa Luxemburg's and Karl Liebknecht's Spartakusbund in 1920 to form the German Communist Party, Walter Ulbricht was there...
...Milland and Aldo Ray in the roles originated by Irene Dunne, Gary Grant and Ralph Bellamy. It also adds Technicolor and several songs and dances. Unhappily, it subtracts much of the romping good fun of the original, perhaps because the cast is not quite as proficient, and because Director Leo McCarey is no longer wielding the slapstick...
...minutes later, and not long afterward. Chairman Allen got a scribbled message from another Congressman who had been on the phone. It read: "Len Hall says Carroll's all right." Virginia's Howard Smith, the senior Democrat on the Rules Committee, leaned over to Allen. "Leo," Smith whispered, "you got the votes?" Leo nodded. Shortly afterward Allen cleared the room for the vote. On a voice vote (7-4), the Rules Committee backed Joe Martin and started the EPT extension on its way to the House. Holdout Carroll Reece voted with the majority...
...realize that voters, not understanding congressional procedure, would remember only that Democrats had helped to kill a tax popular with the party's left wing. To make the point, Martin proudly showed off a wire of support from a strange bedfellow-the C.I.O.'s legislative counsel. Leo Allen coyly reminded Democrats that expiration of EPT "would be giving Gen eral Motors $122 million-and we can't do that...