Blum

[bloom]

noun

1. Léon 1872–1950, French statesman, journalist, and Socialist Party leader: premier of France 1936–37, 1938, 1946–47.

Blum

/ bluːm /

noun

1. Léon (leɔ̃). 1872–1950, French socialist statesman; premier of France (1936–37; 1938; 1946–47)

Example Sentences

“Legacy applicants have done nothing meritorious to earn this advantage,” wrote Edward Blum, education analyst Richard Kahlenberg and economist Peter Arcidiacono, a political independent, to the Education Department recently, urging officials to track legacy in admissions and analyze the impact.

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Blum, a conservative, spearheaded the lawsuit against Harvard College that helped lead the Supreme Court to strike down affirmative action in 2023, while the other two men testified against the practice.

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Blum, Kahlenberg and Arcidiacono, the Duke economist who also testified against Harvard in the affirmative-action case, jointly sent their recent letter to the federal government.

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“Legacy status tells a college nothing about a student’s distinctive abilities and accomplishments,” Blum said in an interview.

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If they lacked the foresight to understand Roberts’s patient long game, or missed his invitation for another locality to challenge preclearance — this time, one that the court could not simply bail out — one person most certainly did: Edward Blum, the master matchmaker who found the Texas litigants, and would soon bring Shelby County to the court’s attention.

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