Word: len
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cold-blooded murderer Ignatz Potz killed a Waukegan, Ill., motor-cycle policeman to avoid arrest for running liquor. He was condemned to death. In 1922, Governor Len Small of Illinois commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment; last week he granted a parole to Potz, effective in 1930. Aside from the question of the legality of a double commutation, aside from the reason for the date 1930, aside from the friendly relations of Potz with Len Small politics, thousands of decent Illinoisans were vastly irritated because this was merely the latest of many criminals to receive favor from a Governor...
...presented to Mr. Coolidge a petition purporting to come from 13,000 Porto Ricans, alleging that the island is dominated by a political machine and oppressed by taxation, that four-fifths of its 800,000 laborers are without permanent employment, and that drastic remedies are called for. ¶ Governor Len Small of Illinois called to request the President to favor larger appropriations to aid the states in eliminating bovine tuberculosis, although the President is known to be opposed in principle to Federal aid for states. ¶ Senator Arthur R. Robinson, newly appointed Republican Senator from Indiana (succeeding the late...
...Republican primaries for Senator in Illinois. He defeated his opponent, Senator Medill McCormick, and was subsequently elected to the latter's seat. Less than a week before the close of his term, Mr. McCormick died (see above). Republican Floor Leader Senator Curtis communicated post haste with Governor Len Small of Illinois- every Republican vote was needed on the floor of the Senate in the closing rush of legislation. Promptly Governor Small appointed Mr. Deneen to fill out the five remaining days of Mr. McCormick's term. Mr. Deneen, resting in his Chicago home, discomfited by a cold...
...their colleague's behalf-even Mr. Borah was reported to have done so. Yet while these movements were being made toward his appointment, others of the Senator's friends advised him against going to Germany because of the political situation in Illinois-the hope that Governor Len Small might be removed from office by court proceedings and Mr. McCormick have a chance to take hold...
Glessner, who played number five on Team A last year and was undefeated in the league season, heads Team B this year. Einley, a semi-finalist, and Len- hart, the dark-horse finalist of the fall tournament, play two and three respectively...