Word: lea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roger Bigelow Merriman '96, Professor of History since 1918, becomes Gurney Professor of History, the chair held by Charles Homer Haskins until he became this year Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History...
...Senator Simmons of North Carolina, and onetime ("ernstwhile") Senators Ernst of Kentucky and Lea of Tennessee, were appointed by the President to a commission for the erection in Nashville, Tenn., of a memorial to Presidents Jackson, Polk and Johnson.* The Commission will also include three Senators chosen by the president of the Senate, three U. S. Representatives chosen by the Speaker of the House, six prominent Tennesseeans. The government will appropriate $300,000 when an equal amount has been raised by private subscription...
...Luke Lea, Tennessee hero and publisher of the Nashville Tennessean and three other southern newspapers* arranged a contract with the Howell family to purchase control of the Atlanta Constitution for $1,050,000 (in stock) plus an additional sum based on the 1927 earnings of the Constitution. A disagreement arose over the auditing of the earnings. Col. Lea and his associate bankers, Rogers, Caldwell, sued the Howell family to compel a sale for an additional $54,000. Last week both sides agreed to drop the suit...
...Luke Lea Jr., 21, manages the Tennessean; is vice president of the Lea string...
...Their Britannic Majesties. Queen Mary was reported to have baited His Majesty's hook, last week, with a worm, in the presence of witnesses. "She can do it much better than I can," was a remark attributed to George V by a correspondent of the U. S. Luke Lea newspaper chain...