Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their games without interference from local authorities. To Miss Emma F. St. John, 300-lb. Saratoga chiropodist and church worker, who had requested him to remove the local commissioner of public safety, the district attorney and sheriff for their failure to clean up the town, Governor Herbert H. Lehman replied that he saw no need for executive action. When Miss St. John continued to protest, two men last week threw stink bombs through the window of her house...
First stake race of Saratoga's season went, appropriately, to Fitter Pat, whose owner, William Woodward, is chairman of The Jockey Club. At the track three days later Governor and Mrs. Lehman watched Mrs. John Hay Whitney's Rocky Run set a new two-mile track record to win the Beverwyck Steeplechase Handicap. First long-shot winner at Saratoga was a horse named Wee Tune at 50-to-1, on which bookmakers dropped some $50,000. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who had 30 horses in his Saratoga string, got up at 4 a.m., went out to the track...
...delegates could read lips, and none could do so from a distance. In packed, tomb-still conference rooms delegates addressed each other with their hands, arms, heads.* Messages of greeting from President Roosevelt and Governor Lehman were spoken for the audience (hearers), wigwagged for the "optience" (seers). Senator Copeland and Mayor LaGuardia had the novel experience of addressing a crowd which neither heard nor heeded them but kept its eyes glued on a man who gave a running interpretation in manual alphabet-sign language...
Married. Mrs. Ruth Owen Meeker, 28, daughter of Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Owen; and Robert Lehman, banker, cousin of Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York; in Washington...
...last week most other Wall Street banking houses had also made their choice under the new law. Kuhn, Loeb was understood to have selected securities. Firms like Kidder, Peabody; Lehman Brothers; Goldman, Sachs; Spencer Trask; 00 J. & W. Seligman, which accepted deposits largely as an accommodation lor their investing clients, will also continue as brokers, dealers and underwriters. A. Iselin & Co. and Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co. preferred to retain their large foreign banking businesses...