Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bradley Interscholastic Track and Field meet at Peoria, Ill., two young women beat their own records with much skill and dash. Katharine Lee of Chicago faced the bar unperturbed. One, two, three, a few graceful bounds, a scamper, an elegant leap and Miss Lee shot 4 ft., 11 ⅜ in. into the air and over the bar, beating her previous world record...
Died. Mrs. Mary Tabb Boiling Lee, daughter-in-law of General Robert E. Lee; in Richmond...
...2B.G., veteran lampoon humorist. But the multitudes of baseball fans who swarmed over Anderson Bridge to the field outside the big oval horseshoe across the Charles were disappointed, for the CRIMSON sluggers found lampoon for a flock of hits in the very first frame, and put the game on lee. MacVeagh was well nigh invulnerabble throughout and but for a number of questionable decisions by Umpire Dube would have pitched a no hit game H. N. Pratt, '24, with an unassisted double play, and a long hit which by eleven broken field running he stretched to a three bagger helped...
...Lee wields an influence exceeded by few men in America. At one time, he sat at the council table of railroad executives during the railroad strike; he acted as adviser to the coal operators during the coal strike; he was conferring with cement manufacturers who were under indictment for an alleged violation of the anti-trust law; he was attempting, as the representative of the American producers of Cuban sugar, to secure what these organizations believed to be reasonable tariff; and finally, he was giving counsel to the heads of the oil industry, which was under investigation by a Senatorial...
...magnitude of Mr. Lee's work may be gathered by the foregoing account of his activities during an industrial crisis. But Mr. Lee also represents such industries as the Pennsylvania Railroad, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Copper and Brass Association, and the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Lee began his career as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and his present profession is an outgrowth the from his experience derived in that line of endeavor...