Word: lehmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began a string of monotonous mistakes. Tammany stood by Mayor "Jimmy" Walker long after the dirt in the municipal nest foredoomed his Administration. Tammany put its bets on Al Smith instead of Franklin Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Tammany bucked the nomination of honest Herbert Henry Lehman for Governor of the State. Tammany foisted bumbling old John Patrick O'Brien on the city as a stop-gap mayor. Tammany lost last year's municipal election to a Fusion-Republican ticket. For this accumulation of political sins Boss Curry last week paid with his head...
...racetracks throughout the State to such an extent that last year they lost $250,000. The New York Legislature went to their rescue last month, less to shore up a sagging sport than to provide the State with a new source of tax revenue. Last week, Governor Lehman signed a bill which pulled the remaining teeth out of the Hughes anti-betting law by permitting money to change hands at the track and betters to sue for their winnings...
...Wiggin was kept busy by other jobs, and the 150,000 shares gathered dust in the Chase vaults. Last week Chase's Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, still raking Mr. Wiggin's cabbage patch, dug out the 150,000 shares of Corn Exchange stock, sold them to Lehman Brothers, bankers. No price was revealed. Two days later Lehman offered 78,000 shares of the bank stock (exempt from the Securities Act) to the public at $54 a share...
...fiercest skirmish in the, utility war last week was being fought in New York State. There in behalf of his reform program Governor Herbert H. Lehman had been quick to press a tactical advantage handed him by the Federal Trade Commission's revelation of letters written to Associated Gas & Electric Co. by a State Senator who was a member of the powerful Public Service Committee and its one-time chairman (TIME, April 9). Alleged letters from bumbling State Senator Warren T. Thayer were discovered, in which the writer hoped that his services had been "satisfactory" to the big holding...
During the Albany uproar Governor Lehman's utility bills were favorably reported out of committee where they had been pigeonholed for months. All but two were promptly passed by the Senate. But those two-one to permit municipal operation after a referendum, one to assess costs of rate and other investigations against the utility companies-were the Governor's pet bills. The mild, soft-spoken Governor declared that the "fight has just commenced...