Word: leas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lambert (Listerine) Co. and onetime executive chairman of the Gillette Safety Razor Co.; in an air crash; near Bryce Canyon, Utah (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Gerard Jr. was the fourth of his clan to be killed in an airplane crash (1927: cousin James T. Walker Jr.; 1929: cousin George Lea Lambert; 1939: cousin Samuel B. Lambert...
...recent months things have not been going so smoothly. The Taft-Hartley Act, in a section aimed directly at Petrillo, banned payment of record royalties to a union. The Lea Act, enacted to prevent Petrillo's "coercing" of broadcasting studios (forcing them, among other things, to hire stand-by musicians), had passed its first test in the Supreme Court. Last week in Chicago, a charge of violating the act was filed against Caesar; if convicted, he could be sent to jail for a year...
...Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimifz went the honorary rank of chief of the Ottawa Indians of Michigan and the aboriginal monicker Be-Lea-Nage (The Winner). And to the nation from the Admiral went an announcement: he would retire from active duty around the middle of December...
Judging from past experience, his legal vulnerability is not so great, Several years ago, on the inspiration of a similar Petrillo ban, Congress passed the Lea Bill, which forbade the forcing of a radio station licensee to hire any more employees than necessary for the running of his station. The Act was judged unconstitutional by an Hlinois District Court in 1946 on the grounds of being indefinite, discriminatory, and a violation of the thirteenth amendment forbidding involuntary servitude. Petrillo might possibly be stopped in the courts either by an appeal from this decision, by an application of the Taft-Hartley...
...English field, for the second time on record, World War II becomes about as important, at least to England's more avid ornithologists, as a movie organist's spot between features. England's lay bird lovers are almost as deeply stirred; the whole village of Lipsbury Lea is determined that the pipits shall hatch their brood in peace...