Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State to stand trial for alleged participation in a roadhouse robbery in 1930. This despite appeals for Montague by Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, George Von Elm, et al. Promptly John Montague's attorneys flew their appeals East, asked New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman to cancel the request for extradition...
...Kings County grand jury failed to indict the three for murder. Nine months later, after the non-indictment had caused an election scandal, New York's Governor Herbert Lehman ordered a special grand jury investigation. Out of a sensational welter of charges of racketeering, political corruption, jury-tampering & bribery came murder indictments against the Luckmans and Hull. On Feb. 20, 1936 all were convicted of second degree murder, sentenced to prison for 20 years to life. Because Hull's lawyer, Brooklyn's Joseph A. Solovei, had been absent from court during the first days of the trial...
...send it back to the committee. The Vice President told them what he meant to do. That evening, he took Senators Harrison, Barkley and Pittman and went back to talk to "The Boss." He even got in touch with Senator Wagner, about to write a stinging reply to Governor Lehman who had urged him to vote against the Court Bill (TIME, July 26). The Vice President advised the Senator not to make himself ridiculous: by the time his answer was published there would be no Court Bill before the Senate...
...city announced themselves for his reelection. The Republican Party may or may not back him, for its leaders have had no favors from him, but the American Labor Party, formed last summer in New York-which succeeded in delivering over 200,000 votes to Franklin Roosevelt and Governor Herbert Lehman-is virtually committed to his nomination. Finally believing that the voters, who in the last city election backed Joseph V. McKee, were independents who will naturally swing to him, LaGuardia easily adds up a majority for reelection...
...threat that his whole Court Plan might fail (see p. 10). A new fight over the majority leadership of the Senate impended, a fight in which it was likewise touch & go whether the President could have his way (see p. 12). On top of these things, the Lehman letter was a serious blow...