Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rejection of his father (no matter what the surface details of the latter's temperament) there is almost invariably a lack of true paternal love. For three months, Manhattan playgoers have seen this spelled out in Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy (TIME, Oct. 12). Herbert Lee, divorced when his son Tom was five, claims to have given the boy "everything"-he has sent him to the best schools and kept him in boys' camps all summer. In truth, he has been everything to the boy but a father. When Herb Lee learns that his seemingly effeminate...
...framers and ratifiesr of the 14th Amendment meant to abolish segregation in the schools. The court got three answers. Thurgood Marshall, for the N.A.A.C.P., said that was clearly the intention. John W. Davis, for South Carolina, said that was clearly not the intention. Assistant U.S. Attorney General J. Lee Rankin said that the evidence was inconclusive, but that on other grounds, the U.S. Government favored an end of segregation...
...Trimmings. Once before, on another matter of principle, John W. Davis took another memorably unpopular position. In 1924, after a steppingstone career as a law professor at Virginia's Washington & Lee, West Virginia state legislator, member of Congress, Solicitor General of the U.S. and Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Davis was being talked about as presidential material. A supporter urged him to drop J. P. Morgan as a client so that he would be more palatable to the Bryan Democrats, to whom Wall Street was a dirty word. Davis refused: "Any lawyer who [trims...
...Cornell's biggest threat is forward Lee Martin, "a hard driving forward with a good set shot." Shepard feels that Martin is certain to qualify for the all-league team...
...cell in Federal government came into being in 1933. Others followed. The secret work of cell-members was sometimes pure spying, sometimes subtle influence of policy by advancing careerists. Accused of being early cell members were Alger Hiss, Harold Ware, Victor Perlo, John Abt, Charles Kramer, Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, Henry Wadleigh '33, and Harry Dexter White. The last two, according to testimony, were not organizational Communists but were willing to play ball with the "apparatus." Other once-prominent government officials later accused of espionage activities were Harold Glasser, Nathan Silvermaster, V. Frank Coe and William L. Ullmann...