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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...
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...
Natives claim that the Yankees stole their best thoroughbreds after the Battle of Nashville. In the late '20s, however, when the paper profits of the Rogers Caldwell-Luke Lea "Shares In The South" bubble began to pour into Nashville, its upper crust started ambitious plans to revive Nashville's prestige as a horse-racing center. They formed the elegant Grasslands Hunt Club, invited the East's best jumpers to take part in the "International Steeplechase." After two Internationals, Depression hit Nashville, Caldwell's banking empire came a cropper and Grasslands grew weeds...
...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...
...noble, hunchbacked bison are as familiar to Americans as Washington's profile or Lincoln's warts. Last week another great indigenous candidate for national beast got his first boost. He was the Texas Longhorn. His boosters were Texan Author James Frank Dobie and Texan Artist Tom Lea. How far their book could lift the Longhorn into the U. S. animal pantheon remained to be seen. But it was clear that he was eminently worthy of rescue from 50 years of near oblivion...