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...Lennington Small served as Illinois governor in the 1920s, during which time he was charged with embezzling over $1 million in state funds. Small went on trial in 1922 - while still serving as governor - and despite substantial evidence, he was acquitted and went on to serve seven more years in office. After his trial, four of the jurors received state jobs. In 1965, four years after leaving office, William Stratton was indicted on charges related to misuse of campaign funds. While he was acquitted, his successor, Otto Kerner, wasn't so lucky. In 1962, during his first term as governor...
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Herb Hames's winning streak started petering out in mid-1955, after the death of longtime Publisher Fred A. Sapp. The paper was sold (for $750,000) to the late Leslie Small, son of Illinois' longtime scandal-tainted Republican Governor (1921-29) Lennington Small, and his sons, Len and Burrell, who also publish the nearby Kankakee Journal (circ. 24,960). Since the new publishers frowned on controversial stories and insisted that all editorials on local topics be cleared with the business office, Herb Hames buttoned his typewriter on local issues. But last November, after radio station WCMY...
...Died. Lennington ("Len") Small, 73, twice Governor of Illinois; after a bladder operation; in Kankakee, Ill. During his first (1921-25) term he was tried for pocketing the interest accruing to surplus State money, was sensationally acquitted and reelected for another term (1925-29) with the loyal support of the State's countryfolk who were grateful for Small's hard roads program. In Illinois' last primary he once more sought the gubernatorial nomination, was defeated by Lawyer Charles Wayland Brooks (TIME, April...
...William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was on the loose again. Kicked out of Chicago's mayoralty last year. Big Bill the Builder, brassiest showman out of show business, had taken the stump once more. No candidate himself, he was urging the re-election of twotime (1921-29) Governor Lennington Small. the character who was indicted, tried and made to disgorge withheld interest on State funds in 1925. On his ten-day showboat cruise "to inspect waterways." Big Bill had brought along the top of the State Republican ticket, the candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and treasurer...