Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Governor Byrd took over the State in 1926, there was a deficit of $1,368,000. This became a surplus of $2,596.181. Governor Elbert Lee Trinkle (1922-26) had opened the way for a gasoline tax, and for reorganization of the governmental machinery. So vigorously has Governor Byrd carried on these beginnings that a contemplated bond issue has been avoided and Virginia has been said to have a "Mussolini." In supporting the Smith candidacy against the assault of Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Virginia's dry bourgeoisie, he has demanded a vote of confidence in the Byrd record...
Engaged. Francis Lee Higginson 30, son of Francis Lee Higginson, Boston Financier; to Dorothy Lucas of Blundell Sands, England. Mr. Higginson met Miss Lucas last winter while she was swimming instructress on the world cruise of the Franconia...
...Singing Fool (Al Jolson)?The debut of three-year-old David Lee...
...Request. Bill Abbott (Elliott Nugent) is a tanktown newsman summering in Manhattan for business reasons. Claudia Wynn (Verree Teasdale), a blandishing literary agent, wants to cut capers with him at Bar Harbor. Just then Mrs. Abbott (Norma Lee) comes bringing her fetching naïveté from the plains and salvages her husband in two acts of dubious psychology. But if the psychology is brittle, Mr. Nugent's comic gaucherie is quite successful. He elicits considerable amusement despite a trite plot and an uneven script. Furthermore, Miss Teasdale is as lush a blonde as one is likely...
...Worcester, who succeeded Dr. R. I. Lee '02 as director of Freshman Hygiene in 1925, was one of the first surgeons to operate for appendicitis, and founded the Waltham Training School for Nurses...