Word: leonard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...William Leonard Crum, at present Professor of Statistics at Stanford University Business School, will come to Harvard as Professor of Economics...
...impatiently awaited budget speech -the speech on which prophets have declared that Britain's general elections would turn-was delivered to a packed and eager House of Commons, last week, by the empire's most amazing statesman, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Journalism, dare-devil soldiering, music, history-book-scrivening,* politics, dabbing with oil paints - these are a few of the careers of Winston, who entered the War as Chief of the British Admiralty, switched to Secretary of War and later Air, emerged from the conflict as Colonial Secretary, became Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Passed Senate bills granting $5,000 a year pensions to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Leonard Wood...
...Alfonso Fors, head of the.judicial police, announced that a plot had been discovered to assassinate General Gerardo Machado y Morales, President of the Cuban Republic since 1925, and to plunge the country in civil warfare with the idea of bringing about U. S. intervention. A certain Dr. Alejandro Vergara Leonard was named head of the conspiracy, and he and nine followers were arrested and flung into the grey, 18th century Castillo del Principe...
...Notable exception: the Four Marx Brothers. Groucho (Julius), Harpo (Arthur), Chico (Leonard) and Zeppo (Herbert) have the same mother, Minnie, the same father, Adolf. *Brought, last fall, to the U. S. by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Manhattan...