Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lee Pressman, 47, was another of the able young men who swarmed to Washington in the first days of the New Deal. Former general counsel for the WPA and for the C.I.O., Pressman admitted in 1950 that he had been a Communist, but he denied charges of espionage...
...Lee Kyung Soo finally made it. Last week the tiny Korean war waif and his guardian, Chief Boatswain's Mate Vincent T. Paladino, arrived in the U.S. after being turned back once because Lee lacked a proper entry permit (TIME, Nov. 2). With a big assist from the Navy, the four-year-old Lee and Chief Paladino went back to Tokyo, got a valid visa and made the trans-Pacific flight once more. In Hawaii, before winging on to his new home, Lee was welcomed with a jar of kimchi (Korean pickled cabbage), which he ate, and a pair...
...French speak such tortured English (they use an English-made-easy guide, which offers such phonetic help as: "Pliize sho me ze boukigne off-ice for leug-guedge"). Occasionally he also picks up off-beat business news, like his report on Trans World Airlines' Board Chairman Warren Lee Pierson: "When I first became chairman ... I picked up a card in one of the offices which read: 'Directions for making a Martini over the ocean: one part vermouth, two parts gin.' My first company directive was that hereafter all Martinis made over the ocean were to contain...
...Crimeds, behind the power smashes of Johnny lee, and the humpbacked thrusts of Betty "Pi" Kappa, scored three touchdowns, and then had Mockmouse, until then a quiet little manager, come off the bench to kick a field goal...
Another example of Rappaport's stand was the recent N.B.C. showings in which the reform committee took the City Council but lost the School Committee. Joseph Lee, an N.B.C. endorsee, finished fifth in the Schools race, with Independents filling five of the nine posts. Leading the field in the Schools vote were Michael J. Ward and Mary K. Fitzgerald, both of whom are on record against the "Harvard Plan" of school consolidation...