Word: sangamon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sangamon County, Ill. where a tall, gaunt Republican lawyer once practiced his profession, another tall Republican lawyer today collects Lincolniana. His name is Benjamin Savage DeBoice. For five years Lawyer DeBoice has served as probate judge in Sangamon County. He helped to send Springfield's ex-Mayor John S. Schnepp to jail for embezzling money from an estate, won a high reputation for strict, conservative decisions governing administrators of estates. To a Springfield trust company which asked his permission to invest the funds of seven estates in U. S. Government bonds-most famed of all conservative investments-he last...
When the wire-bound corpse of one Dominic Tarro was fished out of the Sangamon River near Springfield, Ill., last year, Corn Products Refining Co. was interested. For the next day Dominic Tarro was to have appeared in court to be tried for conspiracy to violate the Prohibition Amendment. And great Corn Products Refining Co. was to have been a codefendant. having been charged with selling corn sugar to Dominic Tarro for illicit purposes...