Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lone official float, rode two symbolic beauties, "Miss Liberty" and "Miss NRA," the Misses Elise & Doris Ford of Brooklyn, Howard Chandler Christie's models. When the head of the parade reached the Public Library at 42nd Street, Grover Whalen and General Nolan joined General Hugh Johnson, Governor Lehman of New York and prognathous, bag-jowled Mayor O'Brien on the reviewing platform...
...publication will print articles of criticism relating to the subject of education at Harvard and elsewhere, and to the relationship of college students to social and political problems. Last year the Critic had contributions from Herbert Hoover, Clarence Darrow, Billy Sunday, Ann Corio, Anton Cermak, Herbert Lehman, and other persons of intellectual eminence. The new Critic intends to have similar contributions this year in each issue...
...Before leaving Hyde Park, President Roosevelt motored to Albany, inspected two new bridges, had tea with Governor Lehman. It was his first visit to his old stamping ground since he left it as Governor...
...merger era of 1928 he came to the conclusion that department stores like everything else could be profitably run in chains. So 22 stores straddling the U. S. from Seattle to Greensboro. N. C.-largest of them Jordan Marsh of Boston-were merged in Hahn Department Stores, Inc. Lehman Brothers and Prince & Whitely floated the stock. Lew Hahn became president. Like many a boom-launched ship, it ran into rough water. The stores' pre-Depression earnings of $6,000,000 a year promptly fell to $4,000,000 in 1929, to $2,500,000 in 1930, dropped...
Although I appreciate as much as anyone, the unerring eye in Lehman Hall, that picks matronly biddies for the dormitories, I believe their list of instructions must read something like this...