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Penn, with a nine and four league record, will play forwards Joe Sturgis and Dick Heylmun, center Bart Leach, and guards Karl Hoagland and Fran Mulroy. The Quakers lost a chance to tie for first place in the league Saturday by losing, 57 to 56, to Cornell at Philadelphia...
...Stevenson had arranged for a special political fund after he was elected. They thought it was used to support Stevenson's candidates for the legislature and to pay some of his own political expenses. The man in charge of this fund, said McKinney, was the late James Mulroy, former managing editor of the Chicago Sun, who was Stevenson's executive secretary.* Each month Mulroy got a list of firms doing business with the state. Said McKinney: "Mulroy was under orders not to pressure these people. But I think it was his idea to call on them...
...Mulroy resigned a year ago, shortly after he was named as one of several Illinois Democratic politicians who bought io^-a-share stock in the Chicago Downs Association and made a profit of 1,650% in two years. Mulroy's stock transactions occurred after the 1949 Illinois general assembly passed and Governor Stevenson signed a bill to permit Chicago Downs to sponsor harness racing...
...Governor Stevenson, he thought Mulroy was guilty only of bad judgment, expressed his continued confidence in him. But at week's end Chicago was ahum with investigations by Federal Internal Revenue agents, the Trotting Association, and the promise of a third one by the legislature itself. Said the Daily News's City Editor Clem Lane: "I suppose public officials will go on operating on the sordid principle that 'if it's legal, it's honest.' But at least we've been able to let the public in on what's going...
...Daily News reporter himself, Mulroy along with Alvin Goldstein, won a 1925 Pulitzer Prize for digging up the evidence convicting Loeb and Leopold of the murder of Bobby Franks...