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...known to raise as much as $2,000,000 at a single banquet ("I always eat at home first"), he has had a career that equals anything in Horatio Alger. He has turned down the chance to run for mayor, comptroller, president of the city council, president of the borough of Manhattan, and lieutenant governor; he has served as president, vice president, overseer, trustee, director, or board member of everything from the Urban League and the Jewish Theological Seminary to Beth Israel Hospital, the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, and Yeshiva University. Now, though he never went to college, Charles...
Harriman, noisily if not wisely, at the 1952 Democratic National Convention. Demonstrating that there is still no ill will between them, Roosevelt and Harriman (along with Bronx Borough President James Lyons) smiled happily for the cameras last week during a Democratic outing at the Saratoga races...
...York City two days later, Mayor Robert Wagner refused to pitch the traditional first ball at the Yankees' first home game because he did not want to cross an American Federation of Musicians picket line at Yankee Stadium. Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons came in as a relief pitcher for the mayor...
...John R. Crews, Republican leader of Brooklyn, who invested $200 for stock now worth $20,000; and Frank Kenna, Queens borough boss, who harvested $2,800 in dividends from stock a friend bought on Kenna...
...other parts of the world, the rise in cost was being felt severely. In Brazil a cup now costs five times the normal amount, and in Brooklyn, N.Y., Borough President John Cashmore proclaimed a "coffee holiday" next Wednesday to try to bring down prices...