Word: leas
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...music was a possible $1,000 fine or one year's imprisonment for violation of the Lea ("anti-Petrillo") bill recently passed by Congress (TIME, April 15). The bill forbids any attempt to compel radio broadcasters to hire more people than they need. Contemptuous of the law of the land, Caesar ruled that Chicago's station WAAF, a one-kilowatt independent, should double its uncomplaining staff of three record librarians. When the station demurred, Caesar informed the three union members that they were henceforth on strike...
...Congress is working for special interests . . . the National Association of Broadcasters ... big business and Wall Street. . . . The Lea bill was conceived in malice and anger resulting from one of the most expensive and bitter anti-labor propaganda campaigns in the history of our country...
...1920s he moved into state politics, fought one last struggle for political power against huge and ruthless Luke Lea, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean, won, and then controlled the state...
...return of Charles H. Taylor, Lea Professor of Mediaeval History, will alleviate the shortages of specialists on the middle ages but will not all the gap caused by the departure of Professor MclLwain, whose courses on English Constitutionalism will be temporarily discontinued...
Died. Luke Lea, 66, Tennessee politico, who at 27 captured a state Democratic convention, at 31 became a U.S. Senator, at 40 almost captured the Kaiser and at 55 went to jail for a bank fraud; of a gastric attack; in Nashville. In the famed 1919 attempt to abduct Wilhelm II, Colonel Lea and seven other Yanks, posing as newsmen, penetrated the exile's retreat before the Dutch wised...