Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housewife, after praising the patriotism of inquiring Congressmen, suggested, "I think the professors and students of colleges should get their ideological education in the Korean trenches, where communists are killing American boys. I do not believe inexperienced youth can judge any ideology objectively, from professors who taught Alger Hiss, Lee, Pressman and other disloyal Harvard graduates...
Provost Paul H. Buck yesterday announced the appointment of Wassily W. Leontief as Henry Lee Professor of Economics and Guy Henderson Orcutt as associate professor of Economics...
John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, presently ranks among the world's leading agricultural economists. Black, who is author of "The Rural Economy of New England," was recently chairman of an advisory commission to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and is a former president of the American Farm Economics Association...
...very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general." Even before he died in 1944, Erwin Rommel had achieved legendary status among his Anglo-Saxon foes. By now he has a safe niche among those defeated military commanders-Lee and Napoleon are outstanding examples-who rise at least equal to their conquerors in the esteem of the military experts. Brigadier Desmond Young's biography, Rommel, the Desert Fox, sold 300,000 copies in Britain and the U.S., and the movie version, while raising the tempers of those who could...
General Robert E. Lee also read the Yankee newspapers with devoted attention. When the War Department in Washington tried to dam the leaks, the Union papers cried "freedom of the press." The Chicago Times denounced Government censorship of the telegraph lines as a "most odious tyranny, with no parallel in the annals of free nations." But by the end of the war, the press had accepted the Army's insistence that it show some responsibility. On their side, most of the generals recognized the correspondent as at least a necessary evil; they began to accredit him officially, supply...