Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springs, N. Y. over the two miles to Saratoga Spa last week swarmed horseowners, trainers, jockeys, stablemen, gamblers, tipsters, touts. In the same direction swarmed Saratoga storekeepers, hotel keepers, boarding house keepers, restaurateurs, druggists, doctors, lawyers, undertakers, servants, socialites, priests, preachers, rabbis. In the same direction sped Governor Herbert Lehman, Mrs. Lehman, George Foster Peabody, many another dignitary...
Altogether about 5,000 people collected at Saratoga Spa. Governor Lehman mounted a platform, formally opened seven new buildings clustered around Saratoga's mineral springs dedicated to the curing of heart diseases, constipation, gout, rheumatism, nervousness and a stack of diseases which have not yet been catalogued...
...thousand ears cocked toward Governor Lehman's dedication: ". . . Saratoga Spa is not only a place for the chronically ill, but for those who although not afflicted with any organic or functional disorder, still are in need of rest and recuperation from unusual physical or nervous strain...
Wicked Pennsylvania flood waters drowned a dozen persons last week. In New York harassed Governor Herbert H. Lehman dashed about inspecting the $25,000,000 wreckage left by an upstate flood that had taken 42 lives. And in China the colossal Yangtze and Hwangho Rivers cut loose with a deluge of Biblical fury, drowned as many as 1,000 Chinese in a single hour, kept right on drowning them by thousands and left wasp-waisted little Chinese Dictator Chiang Kai-shek once more acutely conscious that, when the heavens are angry, praying, trembling man is no better than a water...
...John D. Hertz, who, putting all thought of retirement from his head, had in the meantime become a partner in the Manhattan banking house of Lehman Brothers. Another was Floyd Bostwick Odium, who smelled a bargain for his Atlas Corp. And finally there was Harold A. Fortington, financial secretary of Britain's Royal Liverpool group of insurance companies. An exceedingly rich and somewhat mysterious Briton, Mr. Fortington has been in the U. S. since 1920. He has a home in England, an apartment in Manhattan and a 1,400-acre estate in Pawling, N. Y., where...