Word: lea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improve this awkward arrangement, no less than seven bills were introduced in the present Congress. Two have now merged into the McCarran-Lea Bill which would put the airlines almost entirely under the non-political jurisdiction of the I.C.C. This bill emerged from committee last week and is soon to face a vote. Few sincerely airminded persons in the U. S. oppose it. The Air Line Pilots' Association unanimously voted in favor of I.C.C. jurisdiction; all the airlines devoutly hope the McCarran-Lea Bill will pass. They have, however, been slow to say so because they fear offending...
This legal rivalry has smoldered for months in Washington. To oppose the McCarran-Lea Bill, the Post Office has lately softened its harsh attitude toward the lines, gone out of its way to give them what they asked. Example was permission to United Air Lines last month to fly into Denver (TIME, May 10). To make this new service jibe with the Air Mail Act, Solicitor Karl A. Crowley had to devise a totally new concept-that an airline is a "zone of influence" instead of a geometric line. Last week Post Office men in Washington revealed that they will...
Earning places in the 150-pound class singles, to be run off at 3:15 o'clock, were Thomas Darcey '37, Donaid B. Straus '38, Roger F. Duncan '38, Richard C. Lea, Jr. '37, and H. T. White...
...company in question was one that Hugh Johnson knew very well indeed for the simple reason that he was its president until a year ago, has been board chairman for several years. It was named Lea Fabrics, Inc. after its onetime president and General Johnson's great friend, Robert WT. Lea. Lea fabrics is a $1,500,000 company with a plant in Newark, N. J., where 20 employes turn out automobile carpets for General Motors, Chrysler, many another motormaker. Last week a letter from Chairman Johnson outlined for Lea stockholders the difficulties their company...
Charles Homer Haskins, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History, emeritus, died at his Cambridge home yesterday afternoon in his sixty-seventh year...