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*During the Civil War, federal troops confiscated the Robert E. Lee family mansion at Arlington, Va. When heirs sued to recover it, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1882 returned the mansion to the Lees. But it ruled that the U.S. could make a claim to the property because the family...
Then he got married-and made his first impact on Houston society. His bride, Faustine Lee, was the daughter of Millionaire Oilman W. E. Lee. Unabashed by her father's riches, the fact that she was only 16, or the knowledge that he had only a dollar and a...
But many businessmen might blink at the narrow control in some industries not usually mentioned in the same breath with aluminum or tobacco. Carpetmakers, for example, were dominated by four firms, Alexander Smith & Sons, James Lees & Sons, Bigelow-Sanford and Mo hawk Carpet, which owned 57.9% of the industry'...
In Manhattan, Gimbels threw a crowd-catching sale of summer furniture-and put thousands of Easter hats on the counters at $5 and up. In San Francisco, the City of Paris store slashed prices a third to a half on $160,000 worth of draperies. Four big carpetmakers (Bigelow-Sanford...
Offense. One day last week Hugh Dalton strode confidently across the tessellated inner lobby of the House of Commons; he knew that he held Britain's spotlight. In his battered red leather dispatch box were the secrets of Britain's interim budget. Burly, greying John Lees Carvel, political...