Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting at the Hotel Plaza a small, bald, 54-year-old butler named Francis ("Frank") Sweeney arose to give testimony to the audience of 1,500. His employer, Mrs. Alan M. Limburg of White Plains, N. Y., whose husband is a nephew of New York's Governor Lehman, had just told how, born a Jewess, she had had difficulty in coming to know Christ. Then Butler Sweeney said...
...over New York City at once. But doing over implied doing New York City's established political machines out of many jobs, and out of much power. Tammany naturally opposed it, and Tammany-elected State Legislators stood against it, but they were not chiefly responsible for the LaGuardia-Lehman bill's defeat...
...beaten by the henchmen of Edward J. Flynn, who was reappointed New York Secretary of State by Governor Lehman when he took office. Flynn is the Democratic boss of The Bronx. While serving as Governor Roosevelt's Secretary of State, Boss Flynn broke with Tammany, cannily made an alliance with Mr. Roosevelt's political right hand, Boss Farley. That alliance continued through the Chicago Convention, through the municipal elections last autumn when Farley and Flynn backed a "Recovery" ticket. They were beaten but defeat did not dampen their ambitions. Tammany was also licked and they saw a chance...
...Governor Lehman, too high-minded to play politics with the Democratic bosses, was still determined to ram the bill through for the good of his home city. He allowed it to be amended to meet minor criticisms and last week, putting all his influence behind it again, had it brought up in the State Legislature. In the Lower House the bill failed, by 15 votes, to receive the necessary two-thirds majority, thanks to the "Noes" of 29 Democratic Assemblymen elected on the Farley-Flynn ticket...
...anger at this stubborn resistance from within his own party Governor Lehman made a threat. During the 1932 campaign. Franklin Roosevelt gave his good friend Herbert Lehman his blessing, saying in his hearty way that he was glad that Lehman would be at Albany so that he could call up from the White House and say "Hello, Herbert, this is Frank." Last week Governor Lehman let it be known that, unless Bosses Flynn and Farley saw the error of their ways, he would call up the White House and say in effect, "Hello, Frank, this is Herbert. Will you please...