Word: leas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan's naval Commander in Chief, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, in "a letter which Yamamoto sent to a close friend, dated Jan. 24 this year." In announcing his intention of invading the U.S., Admiral Yamamoto echoed an extraordinary warning issued in 1909 by an extraordinary man named Homer Lea...
...Homer Lea was a hunchback who wanted to be a hero. Before he was 18 he had mastered every detail of every battle Napoleon ever fought. While studying law at Leland Stanford University he made the acquaintance of some San Francisco Chinese who set his imagination to sparking on the coming Chinese Revolution. Knowing that he would never be accepted by the U.S. Army, he went to China, offered his services to Premier Kong Yu Wei, who was secretly plotting against the Dowager Empress...
Kong's plot was discovered and the Empress put a price of $10,000 on Lea's head. He made his way to Hong Kong, there met the great Sun Yat Sen, who later made Lea his chief military adviser with the rank of general. Lea went with Dr. Sun into exile in Japan. Then he went back to San Francisco and, after years of travel and study, wrote The Valor of Ignorance...
Since then Silliman Evans has successfully carried off several big jobs; but none bigger than when in 1937 he bought the Nashville Tennessean, four years in receivership, impoverished by the mismanagement of its jailed publisher, Colonel Luke Lea, and soon made it again one of the most powerful papers in the State, one of the best-read Southern papers in Washington...
...since then Nashville got WPA to build a jumping course in Percy Warner Park (given to the city by Luke Lea as a memorial to his father-in-law). Last week Nashville's steeplechase races were free to anyone who wanted to see them. Only spectators who paid admission were the 150 boxholders whose $30 checks made up the purses for the Iroquois and four lesser events on the program...