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Died. Edward Jackson Brundage, 64, Republican politician, twice Attorney General of Illinois; by his own hand (pistol); in his Lake Forest home. As Attorney General he prosecuted Governor Len Small for embezzlement, pushed the civil suit so inexorably after the Governor was acquitted that Small settled for $650,000 in 1926. Brundage killed himself shortly before a trial of 18 defendants for racketeering, in which he was to have been No. 1 prosecution witness...
After journeying north for six consecutive years to be whaled by New York University, little West Virginia Wesleyan turned tables. A 200-lb. fullback named Len Barnum punched the ball to N. Y. U.'s 8-yd. line in the last period, kicked the winning field goal...
...Springfield he laid a wreath on Lincoln's tomb and returned to the Arsenal to sit on the same platform with Len Small, Illinois' unsavory Republican nominee for Governor. The Hoover speech here developed a long and elaborate analogy between the Civil War & 1864 and the economic war & 1932. The President pictured himself standing in Lincoln's shoes when the latter reviewed the retreat of the Union arms. He recalled the Democratic clamor for immediate cessation of hostilities. He continued...
Last week newshawks flocked about the Small home in Kankakee. Len Small had won his nomination. Though he got only 36% of the G. O. P. primary vote, he managed to nose out four other candidates. As a Wet, he handily defeated a weasler, one Omer N. Custer, whom repeal-vetoing Governor Louis Emmerson had selected as his successor. Nominee Small declaimed: "I accept the responsibility of leading the people in their battle against the forces of wealth, greed and privilege back to prosperity...
First shot of the campaign fired by Boss Cermak: "God help the people of Illinois if Len Small should be elected Governor and do to Illinois what his friend, 'Big Bill' Thompson did to Chicago...