Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yard's now sprinkler system turned on the Freshman Class last night much to the chagrin of men living in Grays Hall. Sleepy members of the Class of 1938 were aroused by the noise of the sprinklers in the basement and flocked to the corner of the Yard near Lehman Hall, in various stages of undress...
Under the old, prosperity tried system of handling the finances the operation of the University was divided between the offices in Milk Street and Lehman Hall, the latter rooms containing the Comptroller who seemed to be dealing both with the more purely financial side and also in charge of the mechanics of University operation. This made the position of Comptroller one which did not seem solely responsible for the mechanical considerations in the running of the University's vast non-scholastic forces. With the arrival in University Hall of a vice-president to handle the financial end some...
...Jewel of Messrs. Skiff & Ross, however, has not glittered unblemished for the past 33 years. During the War it went into debt. Deficits loomed bigger & bigger and preferred dividends accumulated. Messrs. Skiff & Ross retired, and Manhattan's banking house of Lehman Brothers, which had floated Jewel stock, took command. The late Harold Lehman, nephew of New York's Governor, asked a Wartime friend to take charge of rehabilitation as vice president & treasurer. Resigning from his post in the Bureau of Supplies & Accounts, Commander John Milton Hancock, U. S. N., went to work...
...turned $2,000,000 deficits into profits, used profits to pay off $4,500,000 of debts, made up a capital deficit and generally provided a shining example of what a conscientious banking house can do for an industrial client. In 1924 he became a very active partner in Lehman Brothers, and has since been Jewel's board chairman and a mighty hunter of mountain goats. Several years before that, he picked another onetime Navy officer, Commander Maurice H. Karker, to follow in his wake. President Karker paid off the $36.75 accumulations on the preferred stock, put the common stock...
...Governor Lehman saw Jockeys Don Meade and Silvio Coucci each win three races in one afternoon. Jockey Coucci's mounts were Fidelis, Deduce and General Farley, named for the Postmaster General who arrived later in the week...