Word: lehman
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...city of 7,000,000, is crawling up hat in hand, to beg the right to go to our own Legislature to ask for a bill in keeping with the Gov ernor's own views of constitutional democracy." Hot were the two letters that Governor Herbert H. Lehman had written him week before attacking what he felt was dictatorship in the Mayor's proposed economy bill (TIME. Jan. 15). Equally hot was Mayor LaGuardia's defense: He must balance the budget by Feb. 1 to get Federal money for subway construction, and, said he. the budget could...
...salaries arbitrarily, to declare null & void any provisions of the city charter which conflicted with his program. Occupied with fighting opposition from Tammany legislators at Albany, he was not prepared to be stopped in his bold career by a high-minded Governor. As everyone knows, Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman is the great and good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn when Mayor LaGuardia won the first reform vic tory in New York City in 20 years, mild-mannered Governor Lehman was dutifully on deck last week for the opening of his Legislature. A question affecting...
...Lehman v. LaGuardia...
...were going in as receiver of the City of New York and that the city is in virtual receivership and on the verge of bankruptcy and financial chaos. . . . The City of New York is not in receivership; it is not on the verge of bankruptcy." Point of Governor Lehman's vehemence was that he himself had sat down last summer with Manhattan bankers and arranged for loans and bond flotations to carry the city for four years. He felt that a simple reopening of the budget by the Legislature was all that was now needed. As to charter reform...
...platitudes, nor can we balance our budget with an essay. . . . Your charge comes as a hollow mockery to the overburdened taxpayers ... of the City who, for more than a decade, have suffered as cruel and vicious dictatorship as has ever existed in an American community. . . ." Just as crisply Governor Lehman retorted that Mayor LaGuardia "missed the point" of his opposition to dictatorship. He stood pat, but proposed a meeting in Manhattan this week to hear any "better method" the Mayor might suggest...