Word: leas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Self-confident, ambitious, the young promoter found no financial scheme too big. With his potent friend Publisher Luke Lea of the Nashville Tennessean (the man who tried to kidnap the Kaiser from Holland as a Christmas present...
About to lose his land near Bradenton, Fla. in default of back taxes, George O. Lea, State Legislator, deeded it to Mahatma Gandhi, President Hoover, William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, Will Rogers, Clara...
Although Luke Lea Jr.'s penalty was kept down in consideration of his youth and the fact that he had merely obeyed his father, Col. Lea offered to assume an other two years if his son's conviction might be set aside. Judge Barnhill offered to do so if Col. Lea would agree not to appeal, but the condition was too stiff. The case was closed. The Leas posted bonds and went off to Nashville, free pending their appeals...
...Lea must face other trials. There are still the Federal and State matters of the Holston-Union National Bank in Knoxville. And there is still to be a trial in connection with the defunct Liberty Bank & Trust Co. of Nashville, whose president shot himself two weeks after it closed. But last week's sentence marked the complete deflation of a great southern hero, one who had attempted to build an empire on the pillars of politics, finance and the Press, who was once the youngest U. S. Senator (32), who was given the Distinguished Service Medal for his courageous actions...
With an Old Testament sonority the Chattanooga Times editorialized: "The label of criminality has been stamped upon the name of the once great Luke Lea. . . . Instead of serving the people who had honored him he elected to serve Mammon. His ambition for great riches led from the path of honor. And the day of reckoning is at hand...