Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldest Justice, who is reported thinking of retirement.) Unmarried, Benjamin Cardozo was much alone after the death in 1929 of his devoted and retiring sister, Nellie. Last December his heart forced him to leave the bench. Last April he went to the home of State Supreme Court Judge Irving Lehman (brother of New York's Governor) at Port Chester, N. Y. On his last day there, flowers came from two other old friends: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt...
Herbert Henry Lehman, banker, son and brother of bankers, announced last week that, as Governor of New York, he had at last, after five fiscal years, wiped out an accumulated deficit of $94,428,496.67 left behind for fiscal 1933 by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Fiscal 1938, said Governor Lehman, had ended with New York State some $16,600,000 in the black for the year, some $6,500,000 in the black for all years (apart from funded debt...
This declaration gave the big State's big Democrats plenty to talk about as they rode to Senator Copeland's funeral, held at his rambling white home in peaceful Suffern. After the funeral Herbert Lehman returned to his summer place at nearby Purchase, picked up the telephone, dictated a 25-word statement to his secretary in Albany: "If my party desires me to be a candidate for the office of U. S. Senator to succeed Senator Copeland, I will accept the nomination." Some leaders rejoiced, others fumed. Franklin Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley got together for a hasty...
...Lehman candidacy also sidetracked any ambitions Laborite Hillman might have had, since Democrats would find it inexpedient to nominate two Jews for the Senate. It soon appeared, moreover, that Governor Lehman's ambitions might extend over a front wider than the Senate Chamber. Almost immediately after he announced his candidacy, his loyal Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., also without consulting party leaders in Washington, announced his candidacy for Governor. And two days later, Candidate Lehman, speaking before 300 welfare officials at a conference at Saranac Inn, sounded a distinctly candid note by suggesting a purging of swollen Relief...
AMERICAN SONG ALBUM (The Madrigal Singers, Lehman Engel conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). Contains such odd bits of early Americana as Lilly Dale, Lubly Fan Will You Cum Out Tonight and Cocaine Lil. Unfortunately, the singing is spotty...