Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sympathetic correspondent watched Schumacher address a party meeting in Hannover and took away a frightening mental snapshot. "[When] he started to speak I could hardly believe my senses," wrote Leo Lania in the United Nations World. "Suddenly I felt as though I were back again in the late '205 in Berlin, at a Nazi meeting. It was not the content of Schumacher's speech that startled me. I had no objection to what he had to say . . . but the way he spoke was simply quite frightening. Unconsciously, he seemed to have acquired Hitler's terminology, his screeching...
...party which he gave in Washington, Governor Thomas E. Dewey met an old Albany friend, Leo W. O'Brien, onetime newspaperman who was recently elected Democratic Congressman from Albany. O'Brien, veteran of many a Dewey campaign trip, greeted the governor with a special song: "He took the high road and I took the low road, and I was in Washington afore...
Heresy Before Ezekiel. Jerome had other interests which took him away from his translations. He was a self-appointed guardian of the church's orthodoxy. From Bethlehem he thundered against the hairsplitting heresies of the time with the mordancy of a theological Leo Durocher. When Jerome's onetime friend Rufinus died, after a long theological quarrel with him, the saint wrote: "Now that the scorpion lies buried . . . and the hydra with its numerous heads has ceased its hissing against us, and time is given for other things than answering the iniquities of heretics . . . I will tackle the Prophet...
Other men who placed were Jim McCormick of Leverett who took a second in the wherries, Leo Segel, also a Leverett, with a second in the comps, and Charlie Hartley of Kirkland with a second in the singles...
...Also present at one Copacabana gathering: Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler, who piously banned Leo Durocher from baseball in 1947 for consorting with known gamblers...