Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lee has two adopted children; her husband is an oil company sales representative. She had maintained stubbornly that "sex, as such, has no place in politics." When photographers came to take victory pictures of her, she said: "There'll be no cheesecake...
Riley, who has been mayor for eight years, had been charged by Portland's influential City Club with negligence in stamping out vice in the Rose City. Mrs. Lee had promised: "I will enforce...
...ever to attend an annual Southern Baptist Convention. High on the agenda: the choice of a successor to President Louie De Votie Newton, a fundamentalist in his religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab and his wicked wife Jezebel. Last week in Memphis, 8,000 Southern Baptists heard their...
...evening in Manhattan's old Hippodrome twelve years ago, Ed ("Strangler") Lewis was trying to pin Lee Wykoff to the mat with some purely scientific holds. It was an honest wrestling match without any phony dramatics. It was also horribly dull to watch. At the end of two boring hours, the Hippodrome was nearly empty -and legitimate wrestling was dead...
...said T.W.A., $1,100,000 was due on T.W.A.'s $40,000,000 loan from the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Unless it was paid, said Board Chairman Warren Lee Pierson, the loan, plus an additional $8,000,000 in T.W.A. indebtedness, would automatically become...