Word: len
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home, gentle-born Jenny, his wife, descendant of the Duke of Argyle, planned and scrimped and did not whine. "Len-chen'' (Helene Demuth), given to Jenny by her mother as a wedding present, slaved till the end of her life with little or no pay, while the Master was writing tomes about the exploitation of the working class. Friend Engels was at Manchester holding down a job and scheming how to get hold of more and more money. Marx's letters to Engels had one refrain: "Lend me?" Eventually Engels sold his interest in a textile business, settled an annuity...
Illinois. Louis Emmerson, Illinois' new Governor, is a patient, Saturnine gentleman whom the newspapers once named "lopeared Lou." He served in the Cabinet of discredited Governor Len Small without losing caste...
...Wrigley? An Insull? Whatever may have been their anticipations, none of these were named last week as prospective parents. Perhaps then a politician or a gangster was expecting: was Big Bill Thompson about to be a parent? Scar-Face Al Capone, had he a blushing hope ? Or was it Len Small who was soon to gain an issue...
...Herrin, had paid the two young men $50 apiece to kill Mayor Adams. His conviction for first degree murder was regarded as having finally put an end to Herrin atrocities. Last week final appeals failed. He was to be hanged by the neck on Friday, April 13, unless Governor Len Small, famed pardoner, intervened...
...repute until he has been pineappled or at least threatened. And no man is at present more entangled in Chicago politics than Senator Deneen. He is leader of the Republican faction that is fighting to oust the incumbent administration of Mayor Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe, Governor Len Small, plus Frank L. Smith who is again running for the seat in the U. S. Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers) say the Thompson-Crowe-Small-Smith faction is vile, vicious, responsible for Chicago...