Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, spoke Representative J. Bert Miller, addressing the General Assembly of Illinois on Governor Lennington Small of Illinois...
Later in the week, Governor Small agreed to pay the State of Illinois $650,000 in settlement of a certain civil suit against him. In return for this payment, he was absolved from blame in connection with the money involved in the suit...
...case of the State of Illinois v. Len Small, et al., began in 1921, was based on acts committed by the Governor in 1917, at which time he was state treasurer. As treasurer he deposited some millions of dollars of Illinois money in a bank controlled by one of his friends, the late State Senator E. C. Curtis. The bank paid Illinois 2% interest and lent the money to Chicago packing houses at 8% interest rate. Enemies of Mr. Small maintained that he, as well as the bank, profited on this transaction. In fact, Representative Miller in the oration previously...
...when the State of Illinois brought criminal proceedings against the Governor, the jury acquitted...
There remained civil suit to recover from Mr. Small and the Curtis estate, an amount placed by the state at $1,025,000. Because Governor Small disputed many items in the state bill, a Master in Chancery was appointed to report on the exact sum owed. Last week the approaching Chancery decision brought the six-year-old case once more into black, streaming headlines...