Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frank Lyon Polk, 71, Under Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson; in Manhattan. Counselor to the State Department for four years, he was made Under Secretary in 1919, headed the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, resigned the following year to practice...
...They played endless games, stopping traffic sometimes, but what did that matter? I have even seen the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée express train stopping when a bowling ball rolled on to the tracks. Do you think the Germans would understand a city like that...
...radio's Town Crier he got a big audience for his twelve-cylinder whimsies and became a cultural campaigner of such influence as had not been known since the palmy days of William Lyon Phelps. His fee rose to $3,500 a broadcast. His reign covered about eight years (1929-37). He was a national phenomenon...
...this was true, it helped to explain why De Lattre de Tassigny, apparently guilty of mutiny, was charged with "abandoning his post." Last week at a secret trial in Lyon he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment (or for the "duration"). Imprisoned, he could still consider himself in gallant company. Youthful Prince Louis Napoleon, Bonapartist pretender, was arrested last week while trying to run the border into Spain...
British newspapers report from time to time that some Britons in the U.S. theater and on the U.S. radio are doing more for their pockets than for the war. Britons in Britain prefer the way of Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels...