Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted a resolution directing the Secretary of War to restore the Robert E. Lee Mansion in Arlington Cemetery as nearly as possible to its pre-Civil War state. (Went to Senate...
...consider Robert E. Lee one of the greatest men of all time," said Major General Sir Frederick B. Maurice, in the course of an interview with a CRIMSON reporter recently. General Maurice is spending several weeks here giving a series of eight lectures on the great Confederate general...
...Heard Representative Charles Manley Stedman of North Carolina, last surviving Confederate veteran in the House, deliver a eulogy of Robert E. Lee (on the anniversary of the General's birthday) at the close of which General Isaac R. Sherwood of Ohio, last surviving Union veteran in the House, rose and clasped the other's hand...
Major General Robert Lee Bullard last week quitted his post as Commander of the Second Corps Area with headquarters at Governor's Island, N. Y.-retired at the age of 64. General Bullard was the commander of the famed First Division in France. He is the last of what was called the "Big Four" to be retired for age. The other three are Major General Jaine G. Harbord (now President of the Radio Corporation of America), Major General Hunter Liggett and General J. J. Pershing...
...memories of tattered times. In this book, Mr. Burke writes, for those whom good luck has left happily unfamiliar with that code, the record of his life from the day when he, a waif as woebegone as Poor Tom on Lear's heath, was befriended by Quong Lee, Chinese storekeeper, to the day when his first short story was published. Calm faces of Canton and Malaya move through mist down a narrow London street; in bad doorways, sailors' knives flash; the rain beats a tattoo of talons on the windows of the house of Quong Lee; the wind...