Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lee De Forest, 73, who fathered modern radio with his 1907 invention of the audion tube, wrote a 40th anniversary letter to the National Association of Broadcasters...
...terrible smell hung over Florida's west coast. On the sandy beaches, or tangled in mangrove swamps, lay millions of big & little dead fish, eels, crabs, scallops. Natives and visitors (including Coalmaster John L. Lewis) held their offended noses. So many tourists began hurrying home that the nervous Lee County Chamber of Commerce wired Washington (the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) for help and advice. Last week Army airplanes were spraying the masses of decomposing fish with DDT to prevent a threatened fly plague...
...been the guiding spirit ever since. Today, as Health Minister, he cannot exercise direct control, but remote control is good enough. Energetic Jennie Lee, his dark-haired wife, is a Tribune director, and many a friendly tea at their house could pass for an editorial conference. Other directors: bright, up-&-climbing Michael Foot, leftish M.P., and Patricia Strauss, wife of another founder who is now under secretary of transport...
Victor's Spoils. The election brought the socialist weekly an embarrassing wealth of ministerial connections, and at first it leaned over backward to avoid taking advantage of it. Then, says Jennie Lee, "we said 'the hell with it'; anything we got by our own efforts we'd print, and that's what we do now." Now that they are breaking even, they pay their contributors a guinea a column. Says one editor: "It varies only for our really distinguished ones, who are allowed (as H. G. Wells and G. B. Shaw were) to write...
Members of the Constitutional Committee, of which Weld served as chairman, were: Richard G. Axt '46, William H. Bozman '46, Gordon W. Hedin '46, Roger S. Kuhn '46, Frank T. LeBart '46, Henry Lee '48, Joseph H. Sharlitt '45, and Philip M. Stern...