Word: lehman
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Last week the New York Legislature gave further aid to those of anonymous ancestry. Hereafter, if Governor Herbert Lehman signs the bill, when a bastard is born in New York State his mother, midwife or other informed party must inscribe a surname on the birth certificate. The child's mother, if she pleases, may assume the same fictitious last name. Only stipulation in the pending New York law: the unwed mother may not use the "name of any known living male...
...second team consisting of Jay W. Kaufmann, Abraham J. Lehman, and John A. Sullivan, Jr. will journey to Yale on the same day to defend the negative against the Blue orators, the announcement also said...
...Negro tax commissioner, two Negro judges, a Negro Civil Service commissioner, two Negro district attorneys. But in elective offices, Harlem has scant representation: two members of the Board of Aldermen, two State Assemblymen. Holding a balance of power last week, Harlem's two Assemblymen managed to defeat Governor Lehman's New York State reapportionment bill which would have given Harlem one more Assemblyman but no State Senator or U. S. Representative...
...demanding hard cash for damaged feelings last week enlisted New York, where many an itching palm has masqueraded as a broken heart. At Albany the State Senate and Assembly passed a bill prohibiting civil suits for alienation of affections, breach of promise and seduction, sent it to Governor Herbert Lehman to sign...
Governor Herbert Lehman of New York last week signed a law which requires every man, woman and child to supply samples of his blood whenever such blood tests are relevant to the prosecution or defense of a lawsuit. Such tests are sometimes the crux of legal actions to establish the paternity of a child. A few judges in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and South Dakota have on their own responsibility accepted blood tests as true evidence. But New York is the first state to incorporate the new science of serology in a statute and to recognize that there...