Word: lynden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illinois. As police searched for the "little black book"-slush fund record kept by the late F. Lynden Smith (TIME, March 18)-Illinois Labor's Non-Partisan League threw its claimed 200,000-vote strength to Term III, thus defying C. I. Oligarch John L. Lewis...
Some men have political sense, some haven't. Young F. Lynden Smith, Pontiac, Ill., lumberman, had it. He had it to such a powerful degree that he attracted the nose of Governor Henry Horner in 1936. The Governor was out for reelection, and the powerful Kelly-Nash machine was out to stop him. It was backslapping, 44-year-old Lyn Smith, a Kiwanian, Mason, Shriner. Elk, World War veteran, whom Henry Horner chose to manage his campaign downstate. Mr. Smith's reward for helping Horner win was the directorship of the State Department of Public Works...