Word: leas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bigger ban against the record and transcription business. He had gone to Washington to let the House Education and Labor Committee ask him why he had done it. He beamed happily, thumbs in suspenders (see cut), over having beaten the rap in a Chicago federal court test of the Lea Act-a piece of legislation which had been written for the specific purpose of bringing him to trial for making radio stations hire standby musicians. He was also negotiating a new contract with the major U.S. radio networks, a process which involved the threat of a walkout by his musicians...
...week's end the musicians' potato-faced little boss had one more river to cross. He had stood trial in U.S. District Court in Chicago on charges of violating the Lea Act, a law designed specifically to keep Petrillo from forcing radio stations to hire more musicians than they need. The station in this case was Chicago's one-kilowatt independent, WAAF...
Students last night named Charles H. Taylor '21, Henry Lea Professor of Medieval History, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, as the worst offenders. A quick investigation of New Lecture Hall, where Taylor's course, History 1, is given showed no panic-bars are provided. Many students, especially of History 1, were willing to agree that New Lecture Hall was one of the worst fire-traps in Cambridge...
...PALMERTON, M.D. Albert Lea, Minn...
...three-woman staff is suitably international : one is American; one is Hungarian by birth and Haitian by marriage; one is Swiss by birth, U.S. by citizenship, and married to an expatriate Russian. Mrs. Lea Cowles, the plump, attractive widow who directs the nursery school, was borrowed from the University of Alabama department of child development. Says she: "When some of the parents heard I was at Alabama, they thought I would turn out to be a race bigot...