Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ramrod-stiff soldier-Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee -it was a rank case of insubordination. Last week, to show the Rome Stars and Stripes who was boss, he up & fired its publications officer, 35-year-old Major Hal Kestler. No Army regular but a country editor who had worked up from buck private, Major Kestler had talked back when the General called for censorship on the paper's. "Mail Call" column. And he had put his foot right in it by going over Lee's head to protest to Washington...
...nations at a reasonable price (lunch: 50?). A Miss de Vienne Blanc had recruited a secretarial staff, and had enthusiastically announced that many of the girls were bilingual and all of good moral character. Said she, proudly: "We have no tramps here." A caterer named Lee Harding had spent four days & nights seeking a bartender capable of a high, international type of work, had found a man he hoarsely described as "one of the greatest bar characters in the city." The Marine Corps had sent 79 men in dress uniform to act as an honor guard, had immediately lined them...
...Indian Wars, plus bounty land to most of those pensioners, who included Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and U.S. Grant; 3,787 still survive...
Each House contributed $15 to the fund, and the Council paid the remaining sum. The actual transmission was handled by the New York station WHN, and was sent over the Council-purchased wire for broadcasting through the intercollege system. With Bert Lee at the mike, the program gave a play-by-play account of the contest. Investigation of the parking problem in the University was referred to a committee set up for that purpose under the chairmanship of Arthur C. McGill...
...Roger I. Lee '02, Fellow of the College and President of the American Medical Association, will be the principal speaker...