Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was going to school, the President said, there was a discussion of the Battle of Gettysburg and a bright young man stated all the moves that should have been made by General Lee and by General Meade. The old professor said: "Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the greatest general's forethought...
...John C. H. Lee hitched up his belt smoothed his shirtfront, braced his shoulders and prepared yesterday to face an investigation of his command at Leghorn, Italy, after charges of varied abuses by a newspaperman...
...when the Washington housing situation was broom-closet tight, Texas' loud-mouthed Senator W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel bought the four-story apartment building at 115 2nd St., N.E. for $52,500, and started eviction proceedings against the 14 families who occupied it. He needed all 40 rooms for his family, he claimed. "We're not used to being fenced in down in Texas," Pappy explained without blushing. "Besides, we want some place to put a cookstove." The 14 families had to leave...
Died. Arthur Hamilton Lee, Viscount Lee of Fareham, 78, one-time First Lord of the Admiralty, whose chief claim to fame was his 1921 gift to the nation of his Buckinghamshire estate, Chequers, as a country home for Britain's Prime Ministers; after long illness; in Avening, Gloucestershire, England...
...Word. The Shakers were founded by Ann Lee, husky daughter of a British blacksmith. As a girl, Ann was troubled by thoughts of sin and salvation. At her father's insistence, she married Abraham Stanley, to whom she bore four children-all of whom soon died. At 23, she joined the revivalist following of two emotional Quakers, James and Jane Wardley. The Wardleys became convinced that Ann was nothing less than the second incarnation of Christ. Later, it was revealed to Ann in a vision that she was Mother Ann-Ann, the Word. She had attained spiritual peace...