Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible, to confine their eating of his guest's meal; the guest, especially if he has contracted to pay for twenty one meals a week in his own House, receives no financial recompense for his lost meal. From any point of view, the undergraduate is the loser, Lehman Hall the winner...
...present situation has led to a just demand for a change, for a liberalization of the system. And having considered the request, Lehman Hall has responded that there are many objections to be overcome. An unlimited freedom, where a man could sign for his own meals in any House and have the slip counted in his own quota, presents, it claims, many obstacles. The amount of book-keeping, already great, would be enormously increased, and require expensive additional clerks. Convenient or peculiarly attractive Houses would soon become eating centers, and would be overcrowded; under such conditions, bound to be unstable...
...Lehman v. Donovan. Declared Herbert Henry Lehman, Democratic nominee for Governor of New York: "I want to pay a personal tribute to the Wartime record of my distinguished opponent. Col. Donovan. He was a loyal, brave, upstanding soldier, a splendid regimental commander. I deeply and sincerely admire his war record." Rapped back ''Wild Bill" Donovan, Republican nominee: "What we need now is not some very fine and very amiable man. What we need is someone a little rougher and who is not so sweet and amiable. This is a tough time...
William Aver ell Harriman resigned as chairman of Aviation Corp. to devote more time to his chairmanship of Union Pacific Railroad. He was succeeded by Robert Lehman, 41, his classmate at Yale (1913), partner in Lehman Bros., second cousin of Herbert Lehman, Democratic candidate for Governor of New York...
Governor Roosevelt's relations with Tammany were strained almost to the breaking point. Its turndown of Justice Rosenman in Manhattan was a direct slap at him on local patronage. If it succeeded in defeating Mr. Lehman at Albany and then encumbered the party ticket with Walker's renomination in New York City. Governor Roosevelt's chances of carrying New York State would become slim indeed. But the Democratic presidential nominee still had one mighty weapon with which to bludgeon Tammany into line? prospective Federal patronage. Boss Curry knew only too well that as far as Federal jobs were concerned Governor...