Word: lehmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possible light on this recent epidemic of Harvard robberies was seen last night when police said a man named Lehman, who has been in prison for a series of notorious college breaks made some years ago, was recently released...
Known from Maine to Alabama, Lehman went to prison after robberies at the Advocate and elsewhere in the college; he customarily worked from 6 to 7 o'clock in the mornings...
With few notable exceptions (Senators Wagner in New York, Downey in California, Bone in Washington), arch-New Deal Democrats were defeated. Democrats such as Governor Lehman of New York and Senator Clark of Missouri, both of whom differed with the President on the Supreme Court, as well as those like Senator Tydings of Maryland whom the President tried to purge, were conspicuous among the survivors-a triumph for the old-fashioned politics of Postmaster Farley over the politics of the White House Janizariat...
...wide enough. . . . Besides, I did not think it quite right to abandon in midstream an important public job" [Assistant Secretary of the Navy]. This was a crack at Thomas Dewey, 36, stepping out of his unfinished job as District Attorney in New York County to run against Democratic Governor Lehman...
Last week American Export's owners pulled off a stunt almost as daring as William Coverdale's plan. To finance the air service, they launched a $924,000 common stock issue in Wall Street, where money for the soberest of schemes has lately been scarce. A Lehman Brothers syndicate, which offered the 88,000 shares at $10.50 apiece, called the flotation "successful...