Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received a salary of $4,000 or $5,000 a year.) Her duties will be partly taken over by Mrs. Coolidge's private secretary, Miss Mary Randolph of Virginia, and partly by the State Department under the supervision of Third Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright; Charles Lee Cooke having direct charge of sending all official invitations...
Miss Louise A. Boyd of San Francisco, Miss Elaine Wilcox of Denver, Mrs. William Grant of Denver, Mrs. George de Benneville Keim of Philadelphia, Mrs. Frank Mebane of Spray, N. C.; Mrs Claude A. Swanson of Washington and Richmond, Va., Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth of Washington and Boston, Mrs. Horace Lee Washington, wife of the Consul General in Liverpool...
...expectations were not wholly realized. Lord Lee, than whom no other Englishman is alleged to know more about the U. S., which, perhaps, is not surprising, for he married an American, began by suggesting the adoption of the eleventh commandment: "Thou shalt not gush...
...main purpose of Lord Lee's speech was to warn the English-speaking peoples against American cinemas...
...favorable situation having been created by Lord Lee, a memorandum was sent to Premier Baldwin pointing out that England alone has 4,000 cinema theatres with a weekly audience of 20,000,000, while less than 5% of the films shown are British, the remainder being mainly American. An inquiry into the film trade was demanded, it being charged that many of the present productions were inferior, unpatriotic, psychologically unhealthy. The memorandum was signed by Lords Burnham, Carson, Dawson, Newton, Riddell; Robert Bridges, poet; Thomas Hardy, novelist; J. R. Clynes, Sir Sidney Lee, Gordon Selfridge, department store man; Mrs. Philip...