Lewis Landes
Lewis Landes was a US Army Colonel and a lawyer.
Early life
He was born on December 12, 1891, in New York City. He attended the University of Florida where he joined the Florida National Guard where he was sent to capture Pancho Villa.He married Kathryn G. Levy also known as "Kitty", around 1913 and had the following children: Sidney W. Landes ; Leslie N. Landes of Rye, New York; and Richard J. Landes who worked for Hewlett-Packard and was with David Packard when he was Deputy Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C.
In 1914 he was a member of the Jewish Soldiers and Sailors Passover Committee. During World War I he was with the American Expeditionary Forces and he may have served on the American Jewish Committee. In 1917 at age 26 he was promoted to colonel. At the end of the war he headed the Allied Reparations Committee.
WGL
The WGL AM radio station first broadcast on January 30, 1927, from the Hotel Majestic, at Central Park West and 72nd Street. The station was owned by the International Broadcasting Corporation. Colonel Lewis Landes was the station president and he stated on the inaugural broadcast: "The International Broadcasting Corporation's aim is to adhere to truth, to be free of partisanship, religious or political." The station remained on the air for only 20 months before it went bankrupt.Legal career
Colonel Landes defended Eddie August Schneider in 1936, when Eddie returned from Spain where he flew in the Yankee Squadron for the Spanish Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War.Landes was held in contempt in a case in the Southern District of New York, a finding which was affirmed on appeal.
Landes also appeared in several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.