Word: lea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Luke Lea had vast political and other ambitions those days of 1906-1907. A thorough Southerner, member of an exalted Dixie family, rich, and venerated in his native Nashville, he made the initial mistake, when he conceived the idea of a personal newspaper organ, of choosing Northerners to pilot the sheet. Among those he chose were Editor Herman Suter, a Pennsylvanian, whose only Southern viewpoint was gained while a football star at Sewanee: an ex-AP-er, Smith, whose Yankee tang was all-too-revealing, as managing editor: a chief editorial writer . . . who had a Harvard accent...
Tennesseans are a sporting breed, and one of the most famed sporting places in that state used to be a Nashville gambling house and saloon known as the Southern Turf. Within that four-story, knife-thin building some 30 years ago Colonel Luke Lea founded the Nashville Tennessean. Where the roulette table once stood is now the city desk. Trick doors, gaudy ceilings, elaborate decorations furnish a lurid background. A telephone switchboard marks the spot where the Southern Turf's onetime owner killed himself...
...Tennessean went into receivership and last year its founder was jailed for defrauding a North Carolina bank of $1,384.000 (TIME, May 21, 1934). When, at 55, Luke Lea put on the striped suit of Convict No. 29,409 to begin a six-to-ten-year term, he laid all his troubles to "persecution" by a Nashville banker-politician named Paul Maclin Davis and his elder brother, U. S. Ambas- sador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis. Last week Banker Davis and RFChairman Jesse Jones, who, though a Texan, was born & bred in Tennessee, found themselves in water heated...
Because in Prince Edward Island every winning candidate was a Liberal last week, Liberal provincial Premier-Elect Walter Lea had fun reflecting that under traditional British parliamentary procedure he might be in a quandary since there was nobody to represent His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Canadian editors joined in facetiously suggesting that Prince Edward Island solve the parliamentary difficulty by voting itself down to the status of a county or up to that of a country. Actually, of course, the British genius for muddling through would easily extemporize a solution, nobody much cared what. Also it was pointed...
...some 60 assorted U. S. war vessels would not tell where they had been or where they were going, but announced that during the week a flyer had been killed taking off from the Saratoga, one man had been fatally injured in a collision between the destroyers Sicard and Lea...