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...Tennesseans are a sporting breed, and one of the most famed sporting places in that state used to be a Nashville gambling house and saloon known as the Southern Turf. Within that four-story, knife-thin building some 30 years ago Colonel Luke Lea founded the Nashville Tennessean. Where the roulette table once stood is now the city desk. Trick doors, gaudy ceilings, elaborate decorations furnish a lurid background. A telephone switchboard marks the spot where the Southern Turf's onetime owner killed himself...
...Tennessean went into receivership and last year its founder was jailed for defrauding a North Carolina bank of $1,384.000 (TIME, May 21, 1934). When, at 55, Luke Lea put on the striped suit of Convict No. 29,409 to begin a six-to-ten-year term, he laid all his troubles to "persecution" by a Nashville banker-politician named Paul Maclin Davis and his elder brother, U. S. Ambas- sador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis. Last week Banker Davis and RFChairman Jesse Jones, who, though a Texan, was born & bred in Tennessee, found themselves in water heated...
...publisher of the Houston Chronicle, Jesse Jones long ago promised that RFC would make no newspaper investments, lest the New Deal be suspected of trying to control the U. S. Press. Month ago RFC secretly acquired a third of the Tennessean's outstanding bonds from a defunct New Orleans bank which had put them up as collateral for a Federal loan. After denying the transaction for weeks, RFC sold the bonds last week for their purchase price-$200,000-to President Paul Maclin Davis of American National Bank, which already held another $250,000 of the bonds. What made...
Hopping mad was Publisher James Hammond of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, whose prior bid of $200,000 for the Tennessean bonds had been rejected for no given reason. "It is plain," snapped Publisher Hammond, "that an agency of government has violated our national guarantee of a free press, and the revelation is shocking. We have had a situation which is a threat of Fascism...
...Buncombe County judge sentenced Luke Sr. to from six to ten years in prison, Luke Jr. to from two to six years or a $25,000 fine. Still loudly protesting their innocence the Leas fled over the mountains to Clarksville, in their native Tennessee. There they directed their Nashville Tennessean by telephone, played golf, maintained that "if a crime had been committed, they were not in North Carolina at the time...