Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of men they were going to take and that every one of them would pay." Instantly local and state police guards were thrown around the homes of 40 rich Chicagoans, among them: Arthur Cutten, John D. Hertz. President Warren Wright of Calumet Baking Powder Co., Otto W. Lehman (former owner of The Fair department store). The names of the other 36 marked men were withheld by police. Politicians. Beer drenched and politics complicated another major kidnapping of the week. For four days the relatives of John J. ("Butch") O'Connell Jr. kept secret the fact that...
...since Goldman, Sachs floated Blue Ridge Corp. has a new stock issue been gobbled up the way one was last week. Through Manhattan's Lehman Brothers, Schenley Distillers (Golden Wedding Rye) sold 230,000 shares of its stock at $15 a share. Advertisements ("a matter of record only") had not even appeared before the stock was whipped up to $46 a share on a when-issued basis. ¶ Within 24 hours after Illinois had formally ratified the 21st Amendment last week, Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., potent Canadian liquor company (Canadian Club Rye), announced that it would build...
...from behind a post and approached the pile carefully. He stumbled over a book. It was F. Wutenfeld's "Geschichte der Fatimiden Challfen" (Gottingen 1831). The figure came back dragging another corpse. He looked at the Vagabond, screamed and fainted. Again the Vagabond had detected the hireling of Lehman Hall rounding up the bodies of graduate students lost in Widener's stacks...
...Thus when his firstborn, tall, soft-spoken Curtis, finished at Hill School in 1915 he chose to enter Williams College. There he chose Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, distinguished himself as a varsity first baseman, was tapped for Gargoyle, the honor society whose roster includes New York's Governor Lehman, Massachusetts' Governor Ely. When the U. S. entered the War he chose to quit college for the Navy in which he attained a senior lieutenancy...
...matter of record only* and is under no circumstances to be construed as an offering of these shares, or as a solicitation of an offer to buy. . . . The offering is made only by the prospectus . . . copies of which may be obtained from International Mining Corp. . . . or from its agents. Lehman Brothers." When inquirers telephoned Lehman Brothers to ask for conies of the prospectus, they were told that it would be sent them by messenger, not by mail...