Word: lehr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KING LEHR" AND THE GILDED AGE- Elizabeth Drexel Lehr-Lippincott...
...ranks he is respected for his devotion to his party. He is a devout Methodist, a 33rd Degree Mason, and the author of fresh-water textbooks on history, physiology, politics, civics. Outside Congress: His wife, Eva C. Thomas, died in 1925. By her he had three sons. One, Lehr, was House parliamentarian under Speaker Longworth. In Washington Senator Fess lives alone at the exclusive Carlton. He spends as much of his time as possible on his seven acres at Yellow Springs, where, emulating Henry Clay, he practices his speeches pacing a flagstone walk and addressing the birds...
...worst thing he has had to deal with lately has been the amebic dysentery which Representatives Tom D. McKeown of Oklahoma, William E. Hess of Ohio and John C. Lehr of Michigan contracted in Chicago last October while studying bankruptcy receiverships there. Kenneth Romney, House sergeant-at-arms, who was with the Representatives, also caught the disease. Dr. Calver sent them all to Naval Hospital in Washington for a full course of treatment...
Ernest Smoot was not the only son of a famed father to draw money for services to air transport companies. Others whom Mr. Hanshue mentioned were Lehr Fess, son of Ohio's Senator Simeon Fess, who represented National Air Transport at an air operators' conference; William Hudson Philp, son of onetime Fourth Assistant Postmaster General John Philp who did the same; Julius Kahn, son of Representative Florence P. Kahn of California who represented Western Air Express in Washington...
These family details stirred a storm of denials. Onetime Senator Smoot of Salt Lake City asserted he had "no connection whatever" with Western Air, knew nothing of his son's connection. Lawyer Lehr Fess. in Toledo, declared that his firm was counsel for National Air Transport in Ohio, had merely done "the usual routine work...