Word: len
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eleven special trains rumbled into Washington. Out poured some 2,000 politicians from Middle America. From North Dakota came Governor Arthur Gustav Sorlie. From New Orleans came enormously rotund Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe. Governor Len Small of Illinois was there and Senators James Enos Watson of Indiana and Pat Harrison of Mississippi. There were business boosters from St. Louis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge; rooster-boosters from Cairo, Keokuk, Dubuque and Quincy. There were a policemen's octet, a quartet of Pullman porters, an Italian band dressed as sailors. One and all wore huge bullseye badges inscribed "America...
...error. TIME quoted Representative J. Bert Miller of Illinois as follows: "Caesar had his Brutus, Jesus Christ had His Judas Iscariot, the United States had its Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illinois has Len Small...
...TIME, June 13, p. 11, there is a paragraph called "Corruption" in which the comparison is made between "Caesar and his Brutus, Jesus Christ and his Judas Iscariot, the United States and its Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illinois and Len Small." While this quotation is from a statement made by Representative J. Bert Miller of Illinois, it is repugnant to your Southern readers that the name of Jefferson Davis should be associated with such names as these...
...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...
...return for this, the official statement was made and agreed to by the State that "the liability of the said defendant, Len Small, in this case is solely for interest received by the other defendants herein." In other words, though Treasurer Small, by virtue of his office, could be held liable for the bank's profit from its handling of state funds, he personally was acquitted of having received a portion of those profits for his own benefit, advancement or pleasure...