LWV Members Parade In Chicago In August 1920
LWV may refer to: * League of Women Voters * Lehr und Wehr Verein, a Chicago-based socialist military organization founded in 1875 * Lawrenceville–Vincennes International Airport's IATA code * , the prefix for numbering compositions by Jean-Baptiste Lully Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature * Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography *Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include ...

League Of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters (LWV or the League) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan political organization in the United States. Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include registering voters, providing voter information, and advocating for voting rights. In addition, the LWV works with partners that share its positions and supports a variety of progressive public policy positions, including campaign finance reform, health care reform, and gun control. The League was founded as the successor to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which had led the nationwide fight for women's suffrage. The initial goals of the League were to educate women to take part in the political process and to push forward legislation of interest to women. As a nonpartisan organization, an important part of its role in American politics has been to register and inform voters, but it also lobbies for issues of importance to its members, which are selected at its biennial conventions. Its ef ...
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Lehr Und Wehr Verein
The ''Lehr und Wehr Verein'' ("Educational and Defense Society") was a socialist military organization founded in 1875, in Chicago, Illinois. The group had been formed to counter the armed private armies of companies in Chicago. The ''Lehr und Wehr Verein'' (LWV) was registered with the Illinois state authorities on April 19, 1875, with about 30 Bohemian and German members. The LWV trained and drilled in anticipation of an envisaged confrontation between Capital and Labor. In 1879 the State Legislature passed an act establishing a state militia and obliging all other militias to obtain a license from the Governor. That December, the LWV paraded 40 strong, armed with rifles. They were headed by Herman Presser, a socialist worker armed with a saber. Presser was arrested, as the organization had no license. Lawyers for the LWV argued that the new law breached the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. ''Presser v. Illinois'' became a test case which proceeded through ...
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Lawrenceville–Vincennes International Airport
: ''for the World War II use of the airport, see George Army Airfield'' Lawrenceville–Vincennes International Airport is a public use airport in Lawrence County, Illinois, United States. Owned by the Bi-State Authority, it is located three nautical miles (6  km) northeast of the city of Lawrenceville, Illinois and also serves the city of Vincennes in Knox County, Indiana. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a '' general aviation'' facility. History The airport was established in 1942 by the United States Army Air Forces. It was then known as George Army Airfield, named after Brig Gen Harold H. George who had been killed in April 1942. It was assigned to the Eastern Flying Training Command on August 10. It conducted advanced two-engine flying training until it was transferred to I Troop Carrier Command on August 15, 1944. The airport was placed in standby status on September 1 ...
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