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...General Motors strike early this year, had not been able to give his State peace. Instead Michigan had a Chrysler strike, an uproarious labor holiday in Lansing, a battle at the Ford plant, another at the opening of a steel plant in Monroe. In Illinois, Governor Horner had not prevented a pitched battle at the Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. last February, a more deadly battle at Republic Steel's mill in South Chicago on Memorial Day. In Ohio, Governor Davey unsuccessfully tried mediation, but for three weeks the steel towns of the Mahoning Valley were armed camps, with steel mills...
...State Legislature last week was the Fitzgerald-Keane bill as finally amended after five years of agitation, two years' work by a legislative commission, the State Insurance Department and the Illinois Bar Association. One of the strongest State insurance codes yet enacted, the bill needed only Governor Henry Horner's signature to supersede all previous insurance laws in Illinois. Swart Governor Homer called it "one of the finest pieces of constructive workmanship for the protection of policyholders in the U. S." The code has been so universally praised, in fact, that last week State Insurance Department officials could...
...these, and third or fourth biggest insurance crash of the Depression, was Illinois Life, which had $150,000,000 in policies outstanding when the siphoning of Chicago's Hotelmen Stevens finally broke it (TIME, Dec. 5, 1932). The resulting yells of dismay brought swift reform in Governor Horner's first term...
...them all off the statute books. After two years' work a code stringent enough to suit Director Palmer was drafted by two University of Illinois professors and introduced in the Legislature. The Senate killed it twice, in 1935 and 1936. But the bill which finally went to Governor Horner last week was unchanged in these essential provisions...
Last week Director Palmer lay ill at St. John's Hospital in Springfield. Plan was to have Governor Horner honor his victory by signing the bill at his bedside...