Jouhaux

[ zhoo-oh ]

noun

1. Lé·on [ley-, awn], 1879–1954, French labor leader and politician: Nobel Peace Prize 1951.

Example Sentences

Art was creeping up from the not-too-distant Haut Marais, including Galerie Chantal Crousel’s second Parisian exhibition space on the Rue Léon Jouhaux.

From New York Times

However, none of the delegates from the 13 Central and South American States represented* rose to embarrass Host Lombardo on this point nor did any of the big three "fraternal delegates" present: French Trade Union Tsar L�on Jouhaux, whose dues-paying followers number 5,000,000; the Minister of Justice of Leftist Spain, famed Ram�n Gonz�lez Pe�a, who has personally fought fascism in the Asturias by lighting sticks of dynamite from the end of his cigar and hurling them where they would do the most good; and John L. Lewis of C.I.O.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Lewis, M. Jouhaux and Sr. Gonz�lez Pe�a took no active part last week as Sr. Lombardo Toledano and the other Latin Americans proceeded to found a Federation of Latin American Workers, which adopted a constitution, made Mexico City its headquarters, provided that its president must reside there and then elected Vicente Lombardo Toledano first president.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a time Jouhaux put up with the comrades, but by the end of 1947, he saw that he was simply being used as a respectable front.

From Time Magazine Archive

A red-hot anarcho-syndicalist risen from the factories, Jouhaux liked to boast that if war came, labor in all Europe would quench it by a general strike.

From Time Magazine Archive