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...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...
Crashing Success. In Albert Lea, Minn., a rescue squad revived Ralph Booen, after he tried out his new device for asphyxiating rats...
...more than five times as many as in their best (1939) prewar year. Nor were they worried about surplus Army planes. Most of the flyable small planes have already been snapped up, with no lessening of demand. At week's end, the industry got one more boost. The Lea bill, which would provide federal funds to help build more than 3,000 airports (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was passed by the House...