Word: lehmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their guns. Five robbers were shot, one fatally. In a wholly irrelevant brawl, a white man was so badly beaten by Negroes that he died within 72 hours. With their streets swarming with police afoot, in squad cars and on horseback, the Harlem Merchants Association wildly telegraphed Governor Lehman at Albany for National Guardsmen...
...police station house, exhibited and photographed to prove that he had not been harmed, then sent home. Following evening Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia circulated thousands of posters throughout the area urging the responsible element in Harlem to make the rest of the neighborhood behave itself. By next day Governor Lehman could tell Harlem's white merchants that the city authorities had the situation well in hand...
...acting as faculty adviser. The club is under the management of a student executive committee of eight, each of whom serve as department heads: Henry H. Reed, Jr., Louis LeF. Sutro, Harry H. Sanderson, Herschel Berman, Frederic C. Gray, John MacD. Graham, C. K. C. Lawrence, and C. R. Lehman. Following next month's production permanent officers for the year will be elected...
...most U. S. cities, last year was better than 1933. In a survey of 106 municipalities published last week by Manhattan's banking house of Lehman Brothers all but 24 reported an increase in tax collections, basic factor in all municipal finance. Nearly one-half the cities reporting gains, however, attributed the improvement in some degree to Home Owners Loan Corp., which doles out cash for back taxes in addition to refunding mortgages. Despite frequent crises over piffling sums for relief, New York City's credit is now better than at any time in the past four years...
...night when her husband went out to the annual stag dinner of Albany legislative correspondents, the wife of New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman invited the newsmen's wives to a circus party at the Executive Mansion. The guests came in girls' dresses, hair ribbons. Pretty Mrs. Lehman twisted her hair in two braids, wore a frilly white dress with red and blue polka dots, silk stockings, socks. Most of the newsmen's wives were brazenly barelegged. At a table decorated with clowns, acrobats, elephants and five sawdust rings, they all tied bibs about their...