Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This hardly made sense, since Herbert Lehman, who beat Dulles, was no isolationist but a down-the-line supporter of the Administration's foreign policy. What did hurt the cause of internationalism was the defeat of a man who had a firmer, more realistic grasp of the workings of foreign policy than Lehman...
...Between the diamondback terrapin soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf of figures in hand. Harry Truman rose, grinning, and without waiting for the formality of an introduction, said into the mike: "I have some early election returns. Lehman and O'Dwyer seem to be winning. It looks pretty good." After the Boston ice cream pie had been cleared away, the President rose again to announce "the latest returns on the Lehman-Dulles fiasco - and it will be just that when Lehman gets through with him . . . We have...
...Republican could wish. It was the Fair Deal and its welfare state. The Republicans' John Foster Dulles did not say "yes, but-" or hint he could do it better; he declared bluntly that the Fair Deal was "statism," and he was against it. The Democrats' Herbert Lehman accepted the challenge headon: "If I go to Washington, I will work for a welfare state...
Meeting in the Ladies Lounge at Lehman Hall, the members elected seven people to the Board of Directors. The Board later reelected A. J. Carmoli president...
...things for the Fair Deal. They pointed to victories in traditionally Republican cities like Syracuse and Port Jervis, and to the fact that four Democrats gained city council seats in Philadelphia, of all places. They chuckled over Fulton Lewis' confident pre-election remark that Harry Truman couldn't call Lehman's victory a mandate unless he got a 100,000 majority...