Word: leas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Henry Hollis Horton. 68, one-time (1927-33) Governor of Tennessee; after a long illness: in Chapel Hill. Tenn. In 1931 an attempt to impeach him. charging connivance with Publisher Luke Lea (now in a Federal jail for misapplication of funds), was voted down...
...took six minutes one afternoon last week for the warden of the North Carolina State Penitentiary at Raleigh to receive the commitment papers of burly Luke Lea and his tall, high-strung son Luke Jr., to change their names to Nos. 29,409 and 29,408, to make them Class B prisoners in vertically striped suits and to clank barred doors on their still jaunty backs...
Precocity runs in the Lea family. When he was 27, Luke Sr. jumped up and seized the gavel at a Democratic State convention, hammered his candidate into the nomination and subsequent election as Governor. The Tennessee Legislature was in his pocket in 1911 when he, aged 31, was elected to the U. S. Senate. The Constitutional Amendment for the direct election of Senators cost him his seat in 1916, but two years later impulsive Luke Lea was piling up an impressive War record in France as colonel of field artillery in the 30th ("Old Hickory") Division of Tennessee and Carolina...
When Colonel Lea came home he got into the newspaper and general promotion business. He became Banker Rogers Caldwell's political right arm and arranged to have Luke Jr., at the age of 18, legally come into his majority and take his place in his father's enterprises. Caldwell & Co. ("We Bank On The South") crashed four years ago (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Banker Caldwell managed to escape from the tangled financial wreckage but the Leas did not fare so well. Charges against them were filed in Nashville, Knoxville, Asheville. The Asheville charge took. For borrowing...
Freshman 150's: cox, Carmann Newberry; stroke, George E. Rall; 7, Mark H. Dall; 6, Edward Wigglesworth, Jr.; 5, Dunbar Carpenter; 4, Robert R. Gardiner; 3, Edward T. Gignoux; 2, Joseph W. Wilshire, III; bow, Robert C. Lea...