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...Judge James Herbert Wilkerson to be sentenced for failure to pay tax on a $1,038,654 income and for conspiracy (with 5,000 offenses) to violate the Prohibition law, to which he had pleaded guilty. But to Judge Wilkerson had come word that between Capone's Attorney Michael Ahern and the Department of Justice existed an agreement whereby Capone would escape with a light sentence in return for a plea of guilty. Indignantly declared Judge Wilkerson: "It is utterly impossible to bargain with a Federal court." Then he allowed Capone to change his tax evasion plea to not guilty...
...vaudeville acts are no worse or no better than usual. "Mantell's Manikins" put on the best act of the program with a varied assortment of marionettes performing. Will and Gladys Ahern, formerly of Simple Simon, are a close second best with a repertoire of rope spinning and wisecracking. The other acts keep the average down...
...demolishing the building has been contracted by the Stets Company of Boston, who have agreed to have the building void of all machinery by April 12. The contract was sublet to two concerns, one the Zimble Company, which is removing the generators, and another the Shaughnessy and Ahern Company, which is taking out the old boiler equipment. The men working for Zimble were non union men, while those employed by Shaughnessy and Ahern were strictly union...
...organization founded "to remove religious prejudice, and to foster among all our people respect for each other's sincere convictions, mutual confidence and good will." Speakers were President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Rabbi Harry Levi of Boston's Temple Israel, Rev. Father Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston College. Among conclusions reached by the seminar were: "That . . . sincere differences are matters of conscience between the individual soul and its creator, and, therefore, are entitled to universal respect. "That such agreement to disagree as to the fundamentals of their respective faiths in no way interferes with...
...room of the New Fogg Art Museum for the purpose of considering the relations of Catholics, Jews, and Protestants. He has also tendered the facilities of the Harvard Union for the serving, of luncheon on both days. The other speakers at the session will be the Reverend Michael J. Ahern and Rabbi Harry Levi...