Word: lennington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor. Lennington Small, the Governor, was overwhelmingly defeated for renomination by Louis L. Emmerson, who had been Secretary of State, since 1916. Mr. Small's reputation had been thoroughly discredited. Trying to save himself he entered alliance with his oldtime enemy, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago. Mr. Emmerson ran as a champion of virtue-yet Mr. Emmerson was for years a Small henchman and it was he who passed the checks to some Missouri delegates in 1920, causing the scandal that deprived Frank Orren Lowden of that year's presidential nomination...
...nomination or not." President Coolidge did not call Mr. Hilles back to reprove him, nor was any quietus put upon the transparent ballyhoo in Chicago, the immediate purpose of which was to strengthen a State ticket frogged up by Mayor Thompson and his discredited comrade-in-expediency, Governor Lennington Small...
...shouting from Illinois platforms against the Small-Thompson combination, which helped Charles S. Deneen take her husband's Senatorship from him shortly before he died in 1925. Her cry then was: "Turn the rascals out!" Her explanation for associating herself with Mayor Thompson, and his friend, Governor Lennington Small of Illinois, now is: "Party regularity was a Hanna creed, you know...
...Governor Lennington Small, Illinois: "Illinois is for farm relief, wants it and is going...
...realizing that the personnel of the meeting included both Democrats and Republicans, the Governors discussed most controversial questions in a non-controversial manner. Prohibition, so burning a question that it is almost certain to provoke heated debate, they did not even mention. Among prominent governors present were Lennington Small, Illinois; John E. Martineau, Arkansas; Ed Jackson, Indiana; John Hammill, Iowa; Ralph O. Brewster, Maine (president of the conference) ; and Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland. Among prominent governors not present were Dan Moody, Texas; Alvan T. Fuller, Massachusetts; Alfred E. Smith, New York; Charles C. Young, Calfornia; George W. P. Hunt...