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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...
...century, the magazine Vanity Fair-no relation to today's glossy-depicted women of loose morals wearing men's trousers, and in the process earned a reputation as "the raciest thing around," according to Dian Hanson's The History of Men's Magazines, Vol. 1. As Hanson notes, the 1920s also marked the debut of Dawn magazine, a publication concerned with the erotic intersection of "eugenics, nudism and figure studies." By the end of that decade and into the 1930s, the nascent comic book industry was a leading purveyor of porn. Folios known as "Tijuana Bibles...
...name of food storage. In the 1840s, a Florida physician named John Gorrie, trying to cool the rooms where patients were suffering from yellow fever, figured out how to make ice using mechanical refrigeration, paving the way for household refrigerators that appeared in American homes en masse in the 1920s and 1930s. It wasn't a moment too soon. As families struggled to feed their children during the Great Depression, it was unthinkable to throw away leftovers...
...kind of subsumed into a larger image,” he said. “I think what we’re proposing is a little more of a fluid relationship.”A WEB OF NEW RELATIONSHIPSSince Lowell implemented the Housing system in the 1920s, changes in technology have revolutionized student life, but the Houses have remained relatively static.Storus said that simply placing an Eliot House look-a-like across the River would be “intellectually dishonest.” “Would Ford produce a car that looked like the Model...
...Jersey became the first state to pass tenure legislation when, in 1910, it granted fair-dismissal rights to college professors. During the suffrage movement of the 1920s - when female teachers could be fired for getting married or getting pregnant or (gasp) wearing pants - such rights were extended to elementary and high school teachers as well. But where the tenure track for college professors can require a record of published research and probationary periods of up to 10 years, K-12 teachers can win tenure after working as little as two years in some states. And thanks to the rigid testing...