Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refer to your article of May 1, entitled "No More Nicking," in which you state that "Last week New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman signed a bill which made his State the first to prohibit the nicking of horse's tails...
Last week New York tipped the national balance against "common law" marriages 2540-23 by legislating them out of existence. Governor Lehman signed a bill which decreed that hereafter no marriage within the State shall be valid unless solemnized by a clergyman or a civil officer. The measure does not disturb those already living in informal wedlock. Its advocates predicted that it would strip "golddiggers" of their strongest weapon in claiming a widow's right in a dead man's estate. Its opponents feared it would work hardship upon ignorant, simple women who thought they were getting married...
...wife faithfully devoted to each other. . . . The relationship of husband and wife was consummated and confirmed by their subsequent cohabitation, acknowledgment, habit and repute." While New York mistresses were losing their legal standing last week, New York wives were also being shorn of some of their power when Governor Lehman signed four bills effecting the first changes in the State's alimony laws in half a century. Up to last week the New York civil law, as a punitive measure, required a judge to jail a husband who was in default on his payments to his divorced wife. Incarceration...
Graduate students working on theses and tutors rooming in the Houses may likewise occupy their rooms up to August 16, on the same terms. After this date the tutor must either care for his room himself, or make special arrangements with Lehman Hall...
Because of an indiscreet act provided at a recent banquet of the Harvard Bowling League, the club may not be ale to hold its annual dinner next year. Officials in Lehman Hall have expressed strong disapproval of the conduct of this year's dinner, which was attended by most of the male employees of Harvard University...