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...took six minutes one afternoon last week for the warden of the North Carolina State Penitentiary at Raleigh to receive the commitment papers of burly Luke Lea and his tall, high-strung son Luke Jr., to change their names to Nos. 29,409 and 29,408, to make them Class B prisoners in vertically striped suits and to clank barred doors on their still jaunty backs...
Precocity runs in the Lea family. When he was 27, Luke Sr. jumped up and seized the gavel at a Democratic State convention, hammered his candidate into the nomination and subsequent election as Governor. The Tennessee Legislature was in his pocket in 1911 when he, aged 31, was elected to the U. S. Senate. The Constitutional Amendment for the direct election of Senators cost him his seat in 1916, but two years later impulsive Luke Lea was piling up an impressive War record in France as colonel of field artillery in the 30th ("Old Hickory") Division of Tennessee and Carolina...
Freshman 150's: cox, Carmann Newberry; stroke, George E. Rall; 7, Mark H. Dall; 6, Edward Wigglesworth, Jr.; 5, Dunbar Carpenter; 4, Robert R. Gardiner; 3, Edward T. Gignoux; 2, Joseph W. Wilshire, III; bow, Robert C. Lea...
...summary: HARVARD PRINCETON Hasler, Kirkland, Ware, l.w. r.w., A. Lane, Lawson, Tiers Dowey, Duffey, c. c., Kammer, Savage Beale, Callaway, Lincoln, r.w. l.w., Poole, Willis Watts, F. Lane, Choate, l.d. r.d., Gardener, A. Lane Gleason, Dow, r.d. l.d., Holsapple, Lea deGive, g. g., Thouren First period goals: Savage...
Last week it became apparent that, unlike his old associate Col. Luke Lea, who is fighting extradition to North Carolina where a six-to-ten year sentence awaits him, Rogers Clark Caldwell was coming back fast. He signed contracts for the second biggest tobacco deal in history. Biggest was R. J. Reynolds (Camels) lump purchase of 60,000,000 lb. of burley from a growers' association several years ago. Last week Mr. Caldwell was not far behind. For approximately $3,750,000 he agreed to buy 40,000,000 lb. of dark-fired tobacco from two big cooperatives, giving...