Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prospect of the Speaker of the Legislature summoning an impeachment session, even that project was damped. By a legal anomaly, such a session would not have power to appropriate money for its own expenses. Speaker Lee Satterwhite announced that he has promises of private citizens to contribute $300,000 for the expenses of the session, and Jim Ferguson turned on him with the cry of "Slush fund!" In addition it was realized that, even if the state House of Representatives impeached the Governess, Jim Ferguson has probably sufficient strength in the Senate to prevent her being removed from office. Then...
...GIRAFFE-Lee Wilson Dodd-Dutton ($2). A fantastically funny animal story. Illustrated...
...Estimate. Lee Satterwhite, Speaker of the State House of Representatives, told a reporter...
Last week one S. K. Winn of Manhattan wrote letters to Dr. E. A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia, to Dr. Henry Louis Smith, President of Washington and Lee, to John W. Davis and other noted southern gentlemen. He stated in no uncertain terms that, though he did not pretend to be an art critic, he had seen pictures of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, and that Sculptor Lukeman's figures did not look anything like them. Dr. Alderman replied: "I think the Jackson figure thoroughly unsatisfactory. It does not suggest Stonewall Jackson...
...Author. Poet and dramatist and one of the founders of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (formerly The Pilgrim Players), John Drinkwater has gained most of his fame in America from his historical plays: Abraham Lincoln. Mary Stuart, Robert E. Lee. Besides these he has written Oliver Cromwell and now Robert Burns. His earlier plays were in verse, and he has in addition several volumes of poems. Today, only 43 years old, he seems to be at the height of his career...