Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Want Lehman!'' "Lehman by a Million!" "Lehman Must Run!" "Lehman Never Failed...
Just a year ago a shouting, prancing mob swarmed around the Democratic National Convention Hall in Philadelphia broadcasting these sentiments. The Party from Franklin Roosevelt down was engaging in a concerted move to sway Governor Herbert Lehman of New York from his intention of retiring, to run again for Governor in order to strengthen the Demo-cratic ticket in New York. The forced draft succeeded after Franklin Roosevelt had sent his old friend Herbert a personal letter urging him to make the race...
...recipient of this letter was New York's Senator Wagner, its author, Governor Herbert Lehman. Incredible as this flat pronouncement was to many, it caused no real surprise at the White House. "Dear Herbert" who a year ago had been so eagerly drafted had not produced in November the votes which were expected. He failed to poll as many votes in New York as Franklin Roosevelt. Having proved a liability rather than an asset his welcome at the White House was not quite so warm, and patronage favors ceased to flow liberally in his direction. Since shortly after...
...long time Governor Lehman had contemplated speaking his mind about the Court. What prompted him to do so last week was anyone's guess. Senator Wagner was not publicly committed on the Court, but Administration forces counted on the aid of his vote. As good a guess as any was that Senator Wagner, wishing to be relieved of his obligation to the Administration, had quietly prompted the letter to provide himself with an excuse for voting against the bill. An equally good guess was that Herbert Lehman, whose brother Irving sits on New York's highest bench...
...Theatre. Union College at Schenectady is also very summer theatre-minded. Dixon Ryan Fox had just become president of Union three years ago when he persuaded his trustees to set up an Institute of the Theatre which would sponsor an annual Mohawk Drama Festival in July and August. Governor Lehman, the Boy Scouts and civic bodies all over the Mohawk Valley have enthusiastically sponsored the Festival. Colonel Frederick S. Greene, State Superintendent of Public Works, had Festival road signs posted in a 50-mi. radius of Schenectady, and this year, the Festival's third, he will be rewarded with...