Word: leas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loudest debaters in college history. At 20, after graduating from the University of Michigan and getting a law degree at George Washington University, young MacPhail turned down an appointment to the French consular service. At 25 he was president of a Nashville department store. In Nashville, MacPhail met Luke Lea, who, at 38, had already founded the Nashville Tennessean and served as a U.S. Senator. When the U.S. entered World War I, Lea and MacPhail organized a volunteer regiment of back-country Tennessee mountaineers. Accepted by the Army as the 114th Field Artillery, they went to France, where they survived...
...Ralph W. Barnes, New York Herald Tribune; Don Bell, NBC; Mrs. Lea Burdette, PM; Melville Jacoby, TIME; Ben Miller, Baltimore Sun; Webb Miller and Harry Percy, U.P.; Eugene Petrov, N.A.N.A...
During the past year PBH sent out from its headquarters in the Yard approximately 300 volunteers to local organizations. Among its other activities the group sponsers Freshman social and extracurricular activities with a Radcliffe lea in the fall, a handbook distributed to the entering class, and a Freshman committee which each year investigates one first-year problem. The Class of 1945 was concerned with the question of Freshman orientation into the House system under the stress...
...Manhattan advertising agency of George Bijur, Inc. announced that it would suspend for the duration. Yet the agency had more business than ever; from Johnson & Johnson, Mutual Broadcasting, Lea & Perrins Sauce, other accounts, its billings would have topped $1,000,000 this year. Reason for quitting: George Bijur and all his executives want to enlist. Said he this week: "I don't like to quit, but I'd feel much worse if I stayed...
...chair of Henry Charles Lea professor of Medieval History has been bestowed on Charles Holt Taylor who has been a member of the faculty for 17 years...