Word: lee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view on four sides of the U. S. last week were three freshmen Governors and one postgraduate, all engaged in bitter-end battles with their Legislatures. Texas' Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits") O'Daniel, having surprisingly turned into a sincere if nai've executive who could get nowhere against professional obstructors, sent his Legislature home from Austin with a near-zero record. Wisconsin's ludicrous Julius ("The Just") Heil in Madison was entangled in his own bumblings and the snares of Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record...
...York University; Irving Widmer Bailey of Harvard; Herbert Spencer Jennings of Johns Hopkins; Richard Benedikt Goldschmidt and Charles Atwood Kofoid of the University of California; Charles Manning Child and Cornelis Barnardus van Niel of Stanford; Ross Granville Harrison of Yale; Hugo Theorell of the University of Stockholm; Olenus Lee Sponsler of the University of California at Los Angeles; Lewis Victor Heilbrunn of the University of Pennsylvania; John Desmond Bernal of the University of London. **Including Grew, Malpighi, Leuwenhoek, Wolff, Mirbel, Lamarck, Dutrochet, Meyen, von Mohl, Brown, Purldnje, Brogniart, Braur, Turpin, Dumortier...
...Portcullis Pursuivant Anthony Richard Wagner of London's College of Arms revealed that Her Majesty is distantly related to George Washington and Robert E. Lee...
...raise Spanish refugee relief funds, aphrodisiantic Stripper Louise ("Gypsy Rose Lee") Hovick auctioned off two autographed bestsellers: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's This Is My Story, Thomas Mann's Joseph in Egypt. To make them real collector's items she added her own autograph...
...beginning of the 1937 recession, shrewd Sewell Lee Avery's Montgomery Ward management and other big U. S. distributors subordinated profit margins to sales volume, ever since have bargained with inventory-ridden manufacturers to sell them merchandise at recession prices. This contrasts with the practice of many a small retailer who still sits on much of his 1937 inventory which is not yet completely paid for, and still holds out for pre-recession prices...