Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Dorothy McCullough Lee took office seven years ago as Portland's first woman mayor, she brought to the office the same classically simple concept of her duties that had guided her during earlier terms as an Oregon legislator and Portland public-utility commissioner. "Whatever the law is," she said, "it should be enforced impartially." Under trim, precise Lawyer Dorothy Lee, it was. Portland slammed the lid down on gambling and vice, took long strides toward solving its traffic and slum problems, overhauled its faction-ridden police bureau...
Last week Mrs. Lee, 55, brought her straightforward philosophy of public service to the biggest job of her career. President Eisenhower appointed her the only woman member of the nation's Subversive Activities Control Board at a salary of $20,000 a year. Moved up from the Justice Department's Parole Board, Mrs. Lee, whose engineer husband has always encouraged her political activities, replaces another Republican from the Pacific Northwest, ex-Senator Harry Cain of Tacoma, Wash. Cain joined the board in 1953 as a far-right-wing Red hunter, gradually shifted his position until he bitterly criticized...
Married. Archie Lee Moore, 42, mustached, jazz-playing light heavyweight champion, top heavyweight contender (since the retirement of Rocky Marciano, who flattened him in 1955) and part-time Model Joan Hardy, 24; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Ensenada, Mexico...
...signature of Louis XV (on a Lettre de Cachet, instrumental in the French Revolution), the New York Yankees' baseball contracts from 1927, the signature of General Abner Doubleday, the founder of the National Game of Baseball; and the autographs of U. S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Chester Alan Arthur, Thomas Nast, and all the Presidents since William McKinley...
...LEE JR. Lynchburg...