Word: lakeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to the letter in "The Mail" of November 9, written by Mr. Lakeman: he states that he is a pacifist because he would rather spend taxes on schools and other internal improvements than on supporting a very modern army. But how are the schools and other internal affairs to be protected from outside invasion? Does he want us to become a country of pacifitsts, a ripe plum of easy picking for any other country in the world today? The leading American statesmen of today realize that isolation is no longer sufficient to keep us out of European politics...
...because there are enough sensible people who would rather spend their taxes on schools, and other internal improvements than on supporting a very modern army". If this be pacifism, I am a pacifist. It appeals to me as a common-sense and non-fanatical point of view. James H. Lakeman...
...that, too, England has a medi cine. Last week the country knew that the Ministry of Labor was keeping 175,000 of the 2,600,000 dole-drawers busy for three-to-six month periods in "reconditioning camps." Joan Fry Lakeman, famed tennist. was directing a Society of Friends program which would furnish gar den plots, seeds, tools to another...
Engaged. Joan Fry, 24, British woman tennist; and a Lieut. Thomas Lakeman of the British Army tank corps; announced at Wimbledon on the eve of her Wightman Cup match against Mrs. Helen Wills Moody...