Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Illinois' Governor Henry Horner after his policeman-chauffeur exceeded the State speed limit of 45 m.p.h. by as much as 25 m.p.h. on a trip from Joliet to Springfield: "I am still an advocate of sane speed laws, but the 45-mile limit merely serves as a check. Our speed . . . was not unsafe...
Died. Frederick Huntington Gillett, 83, onetime (1925-31) U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, onetime (1915-25) Speaker of the House, longtime (32 years) Representative; of leukemia; in Springfield, Mass...
...Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, 111. Price...
...turned out, sole witness to support garrulous, bespectacled, aging Mr. Mitchell's grave charges was Mr. Mitchell. A small-town lawyer from Springfield, Mo., he became "the original Roosevelt man in Missouri," was rewarded after the New Deal's victory by being made the biggest Missourian in the Roosevelt official family. Early last autumn, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper came to the conclusion that he and Mr. Mitchell could not get along, asked for his resignation. As a sop, Mr. Mitchell was offered a job in the graveyard of RFC's legal department or as Minister...
...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...