Word: lem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a bust of the Great Emancipator above his desk that Lawyer Lem Schofield (Bob Burns) derives the inspiration that enables him to oil the troubled industrial waters, keep his young partner out of the clutches of a slick capitalist and the workers of his home town out of the clutches of an equally slick radical, and wind up with his party's nomination (tantamount to election) to the U. S. Senate. In vanquishing un-American influences from rich and poor, Lem has to knock a few heads together, but mainly he relies on talk. If Abe Lincoln...
...much in any league, and when caught last Monday night Lew Brown's "Yokel Boy Makes Good" at the Shubert, ran to this length. The show, however, was pretty good, and with judicious pruning it might well turn into a smash hit. It has tunes; "A Boy Named Lem, and a Girl Named Sue" is far from corny and there were several others which may break into the summer Hit Parade...
Plenty of liquor is drunk in Tennessee, and it is legal to manufacture liquor in Tennessee for export to other States. This last is due to the cuteness of rich, tieless old Lem Motlow who owns most of Moore County. In 1937, Lem Motlow wangled a law enabling him to reopen his family's oldtime Jack Daniel No. 7 bourbon distillery at Lynchburg. But not for 30 years, until last week, was it legal to sell liquor in Tennessee. That was due to the assassination of Editor Edward Ward Carmack of the Nashville Tennessean after the hot Governorship campaign...
...Tennessee State Legislature, State Senator Lem Motlow, long vexed by tobacco auctioneers' gabble-gobble, introduced a bill requiring every Tennessee auctioneer "to speak distinctly and slowly enough so that he may be understood by the average citizen...
...diplomacy is quite as big a prob-lem as neutrality to churchmen. Secretaries Diffendorfer and Shaw were cautious indeed about condemning Japanese aggression in China. In the sight of God, Japanese souls are quite as good as Chinese souls, and the autonomous Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church has its own Japanese bishop and 20,000 faithful. Said the secretaries: "It must be remembered that the open sympathy of America for China and the statements and resolutions from this country arouse antagonism in the minds of many Japanese, and, as a matter of course, the position of American missionaries is made more...