Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from which all students were evicted when work began on an addition to the Hygiene Building, should be reopened just as soon as possible for as many vehicles as can be squeezed in. This lot has been operated for some time under complete student management, a system which Lehman Hall endorses and which might well serve as model for future parking spaces on Soldiers Field and elsewhere...
Opening night jitters could not have accounted for all the had timing and unblended musical effects. Lehman Engel's composition was chiefly at fault, for it not only failed to produce the distinctive Elizabethan musical flavor captured by William Walton, for example, in the cinematic Henry V, but it was in addition so poorly adapted to the play that dozens of lines were lost under the blast of a trumpet or the wheeze of the organ...
...York. The Broadway betting boys put it this way: 6-to-5 either way on Republican Irving Ives or Democrat Herbert Lehman in the Senate contest; but 4-to-1 that Tom Dewey would give Jim Mead a beating in the Governor race. The odds told the story: if Tom Dewey gave Jim Mead a terrific enough thumping, Irving Ives could ride in on the Dewey coattails...
...fast-dealing week for AVCO and a turning point in its short (17 years), fantastic, often odorous history. Germinated by the wild enthusiasm for anything with wings that followed Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, AVCO sprouted from gilt-edged seed (Lehman Brothers; Brown Bros., Harriman and Co., etc.) in March 1929, as a holding company for all branches of aviation. For a time it flew high, controlling 81 corporations. But soon it crashed into such a welter of squabbles, proxy fights and plain bad management that Wall Street quipped: "AVCO was begotten in sin and carried on in seduction...
...York City the American Labor Party-without whose votes the Democrats cannot hope to carry the state-gave a cocktail party for the faithful to meet Jim Mead and Herbert Lehman (the ALP as well as the Democratic candidates for governor and Senator). Jim Mead sent regrets. Herbert Lehman showed up, but ducked any discussion of the Wallace affair. Many an ALPman was deep in defeatism...