Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your impartial editorial policy prompts me to offer these facts about the recent articles appearing in the press on General John Lee [TIME...
...veterans came to the big party. But the paunchy and greying ex-doughboys of the old guard were determined to keep their end up, in spite of the steely face of the metropolis and their own arthritis. Having already captured more U.S. cities with water pistols than Grant, Lee or Cornwallis ever took with gunpowder, and fortified by Bourbon and memories, they poured into Times Square by the noisy thousands and made it theirs...
...hour inspection of Leghorn, Italy, Columnist Robert C. Ruark had sniffed out some lively scandal, and his five-day series on abuses in Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee's command had touched off a full-scale Army investigation (TIME, Aug. 25). Perhaps some of Ruark's loud charges about mistreatment of enlisted men, and about officers lolling in luxury's lap, might not stand up. But dispatches in the New York Times and in Scripps-Howard papers last week listed some "sudden improvements" in the area, indicating that General Lee had felt and yielded...
...Courthouse Lee was now rarely seen in his black limousine; he had taken to driving his own jeep...
Radio's predicament is bluntly described by such authorities as Inventor Lee De Forrest ("What have you done to my baby?"), and Columnist John Crosby, who declares simply that broadcasters do not own their own souls; they are mortgaged to the sponsors...