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Word: lees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the anti-Warren undertone had reached the proportions of a shout. One Earl Lee Kelly, a stem-winding, dyed-in-the-wool Republican, let fly with a speech which accused Warren of "vacillation . . . opportunism . . . political expediency" and lack of "courage and character." He mailed out 50,000 copies of an anti-Warren cartoon, which showed the governor frantically trying to ride an elephant and a donkey going in opposite directions. And he hinted that he might run against Warren in next year's primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Earls of California | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Damyankees. In Columbus, Ohio's Pardon and Parole Commission decided to let Phil Sheridan go free, keep Robert E. Lee locked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...companies had gone broke, and many a staid old U.S. firm, including Lee, Higginson & Co. had teetered dangerously from the financial earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: The House of Matches | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...afternoon last week, a grey, stocky major general strode briskly along the eighth-floor corridor of Montgomery Ward & Co.'s shining white Chicago store. He opened a door, smiled broadly, and walked in with outstretched hand. Sewell Lee Avery beamed back, rose to shake hands. Said General David McCoach Jr. to the chairman of the board of Montgomery Ward & Co.: on the order of Secretary of War Patterson, the Army was turning the property back to its owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Experiment Querulous | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

Pause That Refreshes. In Spokane, Police Captain Lee Markwood and Sergeant Dan Mangan laughed as they watched a driver wriggle out of a parking space in front of the police station, stiffened their upper lips as the car's owner appeared just too late to stop the thief from driving away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 22, 1945 | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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