Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theme. In his "explanation" the author, a smooth-faced banker of the Wall Street house of Lehman Bros., confesses: "I have not proven prosperity, though I think others have. . . . You will discover among other things that I believe in exaggeration in advertising; and since a title has largely an advertising function to fulfill, I believe there is some justification in my exaggerated title...
...Harvard Fund Council begins operations for 1928 today, when nearly 48,000 letters of appeal for the Harvard Fund will be mailed from Lehman Hall to the Alumni body of the University. Twenty-five thousand of these are signed by the Class Agents of the classes from 1852 to 1928, inclusive. The balances are sent from the central office to the Alumni of the several Graduate Schools. This is the same date as that on which similar letters were mailed in 1926 and 1927, the first two operative years of the Fund...
Comptroller Emery urged that men have their requests in the office of the department in Lehman Hall by 1 o'clock today...
Elected. Philip D. Wagoner, president of Elliott-Fisher Co., to be president & general manager of the Underwood Elliott Fisher Co. recently amalgamated (TiME, Dec. 5). His board of directors includes exceptionally potent businessmen & financiers, such as Morgan B. Brainard, Charles Hayden, Philip Lehman, Henry Morgenthau, Morgan Joseph O'Brien, James Howell Post and Albert Henry Wiggin...
IRENE CASTLE MCLAUGHLIN (MRS. FREDERIC MCLAUGHLIN) Chicago, Ill. In her able response to Otto Lehman's statement, Mrs. McLaughlin points: to the professionalization of modern hose-shows; to methods of making a horse's tail assume an unnatural position by tail-setting, "gingering" or, in one despicable case, Spanish Fly Ointment; to the punishment which will overtake insensitive persons according to the theory of the transmigration of souls; to a continuance of "a long uphill climb...