Word: lehmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance for students of the University to obtain good seats for the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre this year was announced last night at the Bursar's Office, in Lehman Hall...
Potent people were popping in and out of No. 820 Park Ave., Manhattan every day last week. Governor Lehman had traveled down from Albany to try once again to straighten out Mayor O'Brien's fumbled finances. Bankers were summoned to the Governor's home to talk about loans. President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange was pumped to see if he was bluffing about moving to New Jersey (TIME, Sept. 25). If Mr. Whitney was not bluffing it was plain that the tax schemes cooked up by bumbling Mayor O'Brien...
...Eagle placards, were beginning to pass the review point. General Johnson, his hand raised in a continuous Fascist salute, had declared the parade to be "the most marvelous demonstration I have ever seen." Shortly thereafter, when his secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson grew ill, he took her home. But Governor Lehman still wore his smile. Grover Whalen kept banging the railing in front of him and singing "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here." The top hat of fat Mayor O'Brien still flashed its professional greeting, even after he was roundly booed by the Wall Street contingent, angered...
...Fifth Avenue street lights, turned amber for the holiday, winked on as darkness fell. The crowds grew thicker. The ticker-tape and torn paper banked in heaps against the curbs. Governor Lehman went off to make a speech. The other reviewers ordered sandwiches and coffee. By this time the parade should have ended, but thousands were yet to come. George Gordon Battle led the lawyers. Life insurance people, office furniture brokers, telegraph and telephone employes with linemen in truck towers followed. The brewers marched past diabolically illuminated by red flares...
Next afternoon 250,000 of New York City's great suffering masses and tycoons marched up Fifth Avenue in a great NRA parade. Three thousand of them were Stock Exchange and brokerage employes. In the reviewing stand before the Public Library were General Johnson, Governor Lehman of New York, Grover Aloysius Whalen and prognathous Mayor O'Brien, waving and smiling at the marchers. Just after the head of the brokerage army passed the stand somebody shouted "Booo." A hundred voices took it up: "O'Brien, boo! O'Brien booo!" The Mayor, looking somewhat surprised, forced...