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...cold night in January 1919, eight reckless Tennessee soldiers (one of them Colonel Luke Lea. Nashville publisher who later went to jail for conspiring to defraud the Asheville, N. C. Central Bank & Trust Co. of over $1,300,000) failed in a self-appointed, harebrained attempt to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm from his Netherlands retreat. Censured by General John J. Pershing. they swore among themselves not to tell their story for 15 years. Three weeks ago the Saturday Evening Post featured their escapade as told to Truman Hudson Alexander, veteran Nashville Teunessean columnist who had diligently tried since 1934 to ferret...
Reorganization and protective committees. "I am confident that the Lea bill and the Barkley bill and the Chandler bill will be passed during the next session of Congress." (All three bogged down this year...
Pardoned. Col. Luke Lea, onetime (1911-17) U. S. Senator, longtime potent Tennessee publisher and politician, who was paroled last year after serving 23 months of a six-to-ten year sentence for his part in the $17,000,000 failure of the Asheville Central Bank & Trust Co. (TIME, April 13, 1936); by North Carolina's new Governor Clyde R. Hoey...
...improve this awkward arrangement, no less than seven bills were introduced in the present Congress. Two have now merged into the McCarran-Lea Bill which would put the airlines almost entirely under the non-political jurisdiction of the I.C.C. This bill emerged from committee last week and is soon to face a vote. Few sincerely airminded persons in the U. S. oppose it. The Air Line Pilots' Association unanimously voted in favor of I.C.C. jurisdiction; all the airlines devoutly hope the McCarran-Lea Bill will pass. They have, however, been slow to say so because they fear offending...
This legal rivalry has smoldered for months in Washington. To oppose the McCarran-Lea Bill, the Post Office has lately softened its harsh attitude toward the lines, gone out of its way to give them what they asked. Example was permission to United Air Lines last month to fly into Denver (TIME, May 10). To make this new service jibe with the Air Mail Act, Solicitor Karl A. Crowley had to devise a totally new concept-that an airline is a "zone of influence" instead of a geometric line. Last week Post Office men in Washington revealed that they will...