Word: leas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paroled from the North Carolina State Penitentiary after serving 23 months of a six-to-ten year sentence for his part in the $17,000,000 failure of the Asheville Central Bank & Trust Co. in 1930 was Colonel Luke Lea, 57, onetime (1911-17) U. S. Senator, long a potent Tennessee publisher & politician. With Son Luke Lea Jr., who spent 79 days in jail after a similar conviction, he scurried off to Nashville by automobile...
Case concerned Tennessee Publishing Co. (Nashville Tennesseean). Before he went to jail and the company went into receivership, Tennessee Publishing was owned by Nashville's Luke Lea. The present owner of the common stock, E. W. Carmack, submitted several 77-B reorganization plans to Nashville's Federal District Judge John J. Gore, who refused to approve them on the ground that they required coercion of a majority of the creditors. The case turned on the point that 77-B not only provides a means of clubbing a stubborn minority into line if two-thirds of the creditors...
Against them will be a Princeton backfield that will be studded with such stars as LeVan, Constable, and Sandback, a line that contains Stoess, Montgomery, Weller, and Ritter, and ends such as Lea...
...these posts practically undisputed, although Charley Tell, 210-lb Sophomore, has frequently substituted for Ritter and showed up impressively. At left end the versatile Hugh MacMillan is sure to begin the contest, with his 60-yard kicks and glue-fingered pass-snagging being indispensable to the Tiger machine. Gil Lea, lanky right ender, is also a star man. John Paul Jones and Bill Roper constitute dependable reserves on the flanks, the former shining particularly in the Penn game...
PRINCETON Le Van Constable Sandbach Spofford 152 lbs 189 lbs 178 lbs 180 lbs Right Halfback Fullback Quarterback Left Halfback Lea Ritter Weller Montgomery Cullinan Stoess MacMillan 177 lbs 189 lbs 206 lbs 179 lbs 170 lbs 191 lbs 182 lbs Right End Right Tackle Right Guard Left Guard Center Left Tackle Left End Knapp Spring Nee Jones Gaffney Maser Kelly 174 lbs 209 lbs. 190 lbs 175 lbs 197 lbs 210 lbs 182 lbs Left End Left Tackle Left Guard Center Right Guard Right Tackle Right End Ford Bilodeau Hedblom Ecker...