Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three of the new diplomats are seasoned Democrats. To Belgium and Luxembourg went Charles Sawyer, 57, longtime Ohio politician; to Norway, by way of the exiled Government in London, Lithgow Osborne, who left the U.S. foreign service 22 years ago for the automobile business, and has aided Herbert Lehman in UNRRA; and to the Yugoslav Government, Richard C. Patterson, onetime assistant to the late Secretary of Commerce, Daniel C. Roper...
...sessions got under way, Director-General Herbert Lehman admitted the prevalence of rumors that "we are not doing as much as some people expected. ..." He admitted that "greater cooperation is still to be desired." He denied one rumor-that he would resign. Delegates had tough policy matters to settle, too. Should UNRRA help ex-enemy Italy? If so, would Germany be eligible? And Japan? It would take a majority vote to effectuate such aid. One delegate was on record. China's Tsiang Ting-fu favored making "the necessities of life available to the Japanese after...
...former and the people insisted on making Harvard Commencement a substitute for the latter. By the early eighteenth century, Harvard Commencement had become a "riot" Every graduate came if he possibly could, and those who had no right of admission to the Meetinghouse (on the site of Lehman Hall) where the degrees were conferred came out to watch the procession and see the sights. Cambridge common was covered by tonts of huck-sters, cheap-jacks, Indian basket-sellers and medicine men, sellers of gingerbread, purveyors of run, keepers of dancing bears, and ladies of easy virtue. The College Corporation...
...Herbert Lehman, although still on crutches with a fractured kneecap he got in Africa last March, was getting about, visited the White House to discuss UNRRA with the President...
...frontal attacks by day, creeping infiltration by night, until the Bougainville base was finally secured. By last week they were either veterans or casualties of the jungle war and white troops were no longer reluctant to serve beside them. Proudest of their record is Major General Raymond G. Lehman, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., commander of the 93rd, who has been a Regular Army officer since 1917 and commands Negro troops because he likes to lead them...