Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...additional supplies. New York City's Health Commissioner warned that he would extend the city inspection service as far west as Wisconsin if the milk supply was curtailed. The strikers answered that if the "milkshed" was extended they would extend the strike, 'make it nationwide. Governor Lehman in a special message to the Legislature urged an investigation to determine whether the Milk Board should be abolished. Said he: "The Legislature created the board solely with the desire to help the dairy farmers. . . . There is no use in continuing an agency at great cost to the taxpayers...
...been persuasive with legislators, helping put through nearly all New York's social reforms of the past 30 years. Miss Wald, a pacifist, has been black-listed by the D. A. R. but she counts among her friends, and the friends of Henry Street, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman (who once worked in the Settlement), Alfred Emanuel Smith (whose native Oliver Street is hard by), the late Theodore Roosevelt and Ramsay MacDonald. Last spring, ailing at 66, Miss Wald gave up her post as Head Worker, succeeded Banker Felix Moritz Warburg as president. In announcing that Helen Hall would become...
States, too, were last week joining the anti-kidnap war. California passed a bill fixing the death penalty or life imprisonment for kidnappers who harm their victims.* In Albany, Governor Lehman urged New York's Legislature to make kidnapping punishable by death unless the victim is returned before trial; to make it a felony to pay ransom or withhold information about a kidnapping case...
Particularly in the Spring grumblings are heard in the Union and House Dining Halls about the constant reappearance of Steamed Indian Pudding, Foamy, and Sauce, Roast Prime Ribs of Beef aujus, on the menus. Lehman Hall has said "They always complain of the food in April," and it soons blows over...
...expense for six weeks. This suggestion has often been made by students who feel that the improvement would be more than worth the extra charge, and should be entertained more seriously than hitherto. Instead of furnishing menus that are just sufficiently tempting to keep back a torrent of complaints, Lehman Hall would do well to avoid the appearance of making reductions for the students' benefit and provide more attractive meals, regardless of the inconsequential increase in price...