Word: lehmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...services the swart, Sicilian-born inquisitor received $300 per month and the thanks of his President in the form of a one-year appointment to the Securities & Exchange Commission (TIME, July 9). Last week Lawyer Pecora received from New York's Governor Lehman the reward which he really wanted. To serve the unexpired eight years of a resigned justice's term. Governor Lehman appointed Mr. Pecora to the New York Supreme Court. Salary: $22,500 per year...
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 14--Purchase by New York State of all idle and submarginal farm land within its borders, was recommended in a report of the state planning board, which was submitted, to the legislature tonight by Governor Herbert IL. Lehman...
With his $25,000 a year salary (biggest of any Governor), with a $390,000,000 State debt (biggest of any state), but with the State credit boastfully asserted to be better than that of the U. S. Government, Governor Lehman may well be the envy of his 47 colleagues. But he is not short on State worries. The number of people on relief in New York is around 2,000,000, more people than there are in Connecticut or Kansas, or Florida or Nebraska. In 1935 Governor Lehman will need about $100,000,000 of new taxes to balance...
...Montgomery, Ala. cotton merchant who went to New York after the Civil War and founded a private banking house, Governor Lehman has spent most of his adult life in finance, as a partner in Lehman Bros. Politically he is not a misfit but an anomaly. Following two- such bright political lights as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt at Albany he is wholly out of place, yet thoroughly successful. He has the whole hearted support not only of Messrs. Smith and Roosevelt but of a vast section of the New York Press. He is not the public idol...
...Hauptmanns' "business manager." At first Hauptmann refused to have any lawyer, discarding several of his wife's selection. By the end of his first week's imprisonment, however, he had agreed to retain James M. Fawcett of Brooklyn. It was Lawyer Fawcett who unsuccessfully fought Governor Lehman's extradition warrant before The Bronx County Supreme Court. He was subsequently succeeded by Edward J. Reilly. also of Brooklyn, who has an impressive record for getting his clients off murder charges. Story was that Fawcett was dropped because he wanted Hauptmann to plead insanity. Reilly has been nothing...