Word: leasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It had taken two days to drive the Leas from Nashville, Tenn., where they had once been rich and powerful and where Luke Sr. fancied himself as "a maker of Governors," across the State avoiding Knoxville, where they had once owned the Journal, up the Smoky Mountains to Asheville, N...
¶ Colonel Luke Lea and his son Luke Jr., Tennessee publishers convicted of conspiracy to defraud an Asheville, N. C. bank, were ordered arrested last week after they failed to surrender to serve jail sentences. Buncombe County courts declared forfeit their $50,000 bonds, written by New Orleans' Union...
Col. Luke Lea 6 Son were about their publishing business in Nashville last week when they learned that the U. S. Supreme Court had for the second time refused to review their appeal from a conviction of conspiracy to defraud a bank in Buncombe County, N. C. Free under bond...
Although Luke Lea Jr.'s penalty was kept down in consideration of his youth and the fact that he had merely obeyed his father, Col. Lea offered to assume an other two years if his son's conviction might be set aside. Judge Barnhill offered to do so if Col...
Finally the jury returned. Foreman Hurst Justice reported on four counts.* The Leas were found guilty on all four, Mr. Davis on three, Mr. Charlet on none.