Word: leas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they were getting out of their leaders' hands (see p. 20). In Wilmington, Del., a short-lived general strike called in support of striking truck drivers sent flying squads of unionists roving the city's streets, tossing bricks through windows of trolleys, busses, stores. In Albert Lea, Minn., retaliating for the smashing of picket lines and a tear-gas attack on their union headquarters, strikers attacked a gas machine plant where 150 deputy sheriffs were encamped. They overturned automobiles, set fire to one police car and dumped another into the river, did $15,000 damage...
...order to relive this situation, Senator David I. Walsh and Congressman Clarence F. Lea of California introduced into the Senate and House of Representatives a bill providing for an amendment to Section 318, making possible the operation of certain classes of radio transmitters without operator attendance. This bill passed the House of Representatives on February 24, 1937, the Senate on March 24, 1937, and will become part of our Communications law as soon as it is signed by President Roosevelt
Since 1933 the morning and evening Nashville Tennesseans, relics of the financial empire of Promoters Luke Lea and Rogers ("Bank on the South") Caldwell. have been operated by a receiver. Last week, on a Nashville sidewalk, the receiver sold the Tennesseans to Nashville's home-grown Financier Paul Maclin Davis, long-time Lea & Caldwell foe. who was sole bidder. Price of the Tennesseans: $850,000. Liabilities...
Fourteen were appointed as the new assistants. They are: Andrew A. Kasper '33, of Watertown, in Chemistry; John O. Brew, of Maiden in Anthropology; Joseph Charles of Arcadia, California, in History; Robert B. Watson, of Urbana, Illinois, in Physics; Lea M. Hurvich, '32, of Mattapan in Psychology...
...News-Scimitar. Same year the powerful old morning Commercial Appeal aimed an Evening Appeal at the Press-Scimitar. Just before the Evening Appeal appeared, Editor & Publisher Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney suddenly died. Because Mr. Mooney had been a great & able editor, the Appeal papers languished without him. Promoters Luke Lea and Rogers ("We Bank on the South") Caldwell acquired the papers in 1927, milked them of cash, lost them to receivers when the Lea-Caldwell empire collapsed...