Word: lehmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days in the Senate last week a dogged trio of liberal Democrats-Missouri's Tom Hennings, New York's Herbert Lehman and Illinois' Paul Douglas-urged the Senate to blast the Administration's Civil Rights bill out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Argued Paul Douglas, while Mississippi's Jim Eastland, Judiciary Committee chairman, chomped on a dead cigar: "If we pierce behind the complex rules and procedures, we know, as men, that the rules of the Senate have been very skillfully devised to prevent any action on civil rights which is obnoxious to the members...
...some loose insulation around a ventilator outside a hearing room where a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee meets, two Pentagon sleuths, joined by a Capitol cop, set out on a spy hunt. Soon they clomped into the next-door office of New York's civil-righteous Democratic Senator Herbert Lehman, brushed past his secretary, poked around in the Senator's closet refrigerator in search of a listening device. Next day the Senate (notably excepting Indiana's dissenting Republican Homer Capehart) thundered its indignation for two hours...
...Arthur Lehman Goodhart, expert on constitutional law and first American chosen to be head of an Oxford University college LL.D...
...least a half dozen Democratic Senators, the brochure noted, are millionaires; Rhode Island's Theodore Green, Virginia's Harry Byrd, Oklahoma's Bob Kerr, New York's Herbert Lehman, Montana's Jim Murray and Missouri's Stuart Symington. Furthermore, four of the leading Democratic presidential possibilities-Symington, Adlai Stevenson, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and Michigan's Governor "Soapy" Williams-are "men of wealth...
When Perry came to Harvard, 16 years ago, the Bursar's office consisted of a few bookkeepers, housed in a single room. Now, the department has a staff of 110, entirely occupies Lehman Hall, and keeps several banks of IBM machines continually occupied...