Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan Tammany Hall uncorked some of its long-bottled dislike of New Deal operations in New York State. From potent Tammanyite Daniel Florence Cohalan to State Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley went a tart letter inquiring how on earth he justified a third term for Governor Herbert Henry Lehman. "Can it be," asked this Catholic onetime State Supreme Court Justice, ". . . because he is a Jew? . . . If, in order to give Roosevelt a chance to carry New York ... he and you must appoint a Jew as candidate . . . can you not select for us a candidate who . . . will exalt the Jewish reputation...
...year-old Brooklynite and American Legionary; Senator Robert Wagner; Morris S. Tremaine, five-time State Comptroller; and Albany's Mayor John Boyd Thacher II, who gave Herbert Lehman a fight for the 1932 nomination with Tammany's ardent backing. In Albany Governor Lehman remained aloof from the shouting. To newshawks a close friend remarked: "It would take an earthquake to make him change his mind...
...vice investigations commonly rocket up in a splatter of front-page headlines, sputter out on back pages with a few inconsequential arrests and vague generalities which leave decent citizens no better informed about local conditions than they were before. Last week in Manhattan a racket investigation launched by Governor Lehman provided New Yorkers with an astonishingly detailed exposition of the personnel and workings of organized prostitution...
Died. Arthur Lehman, 63, Manhattan financier (Lehman Bros."), brother of New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman; of pulmonary embolism; in Manhattan...
...with the anniversary of a half century of fiscal service in Harvard only a few months off, Mr. Taylor is still a vigorous and highly active member of the Lehman Hall staff. Asked about incidents of his career, he replied: "It is difficult to remember much about the past, I have lived almost completely in the present...