Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lehman, demanding that the district attorney be superseded by a special prosecutor of rackets. Impressed, Governor Lehman named four well-known lawyers, including Charles Evans Hughes Jr., asked that one of them take the job. Unanimously they turned it down, unanimously told the Governor that the man he wanted was one the grand jury wanted, young Thomas Edmund Dewey. Governor Lehman hesitated. Lawyer Dewey had made a brilliant crime-fighting record as Chief Assistant U. S. Attorney, capped when he sent notorious Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler to prison for ten years on income tax charges. But he had since retired...
With a hundred and ninety odd residents of Winthrop House petitioning Lehman Hall to restore their former janitor to his accustomed beat, the recent shake-up of the college's night watch has catapulted into public notice. For what might seem to the administration merely a routine shift of duties for the staff has cast its shadow over the everyday life of the whole college...
...making its shifts too frequent. Life in the Houses becomes more pleasant and comfortable if the inmates are on friendly terms with the men who stand at the gates, and the Winthrop House petition bears striking witness to the service which these men perform. It is to be hoped Lehman Hall will not lose sight of the value to the residents of friendly dealings with those who serve, yet only stand and wait...
...summer Thomas Hitchcock Jr., 37-most famed living polo player, missed the international matches in England for the first time in 15 years because of pressing business affairs. He was no longer willing to leave the U. S. just for polo. Last week his business association since 1932 with Lehman Bros., big Manhattan investment banking house, matured into a partnership. His good friend Robert Lehman often plays polo with the great Hitchcock at Meadow Brook...
Also made a Lehman partner last week was Joseph A. Thomas, 30, a smart Yale graduate (Class of 1928) who has been with the firm since...