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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Governors | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blessed Event | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: In Illinois | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Go to Hell | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Rushing to a rally at East St. Louis last week, Governor Len Small of Illinois let his chauffeur "step on it." Near Girard, Ill., the Small car overtook a car occupied by two country men. Honking loudly, roaring on, the Small chauffeur whizzed alongside, cut in sharply, sideswiped the country men, ditched them, bruised them, cut them, embarrassed Governor Small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Swipe | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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