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Digging further, Roberts managed to spade up a list of the Chicago Downs stockholders. Among them was many a newsworthy name: Ex-Sun Managing Editor James Mulroy,** now executive assistant to Governor Adlai Stevenson; the wife of House Minority Leader Paul Powell, who was speaker of the 1949 legislature that passed the race-track bill; Democratic Ward Boss Tom Nash, and a covey of lesser politicians...
...them, Roberts found, had made minor killings; they had bought their stock at 10? a share, in 1949 got dividends of $1 a share, last year got 75?. For example, on his $100 investment Mulroy had taken back $1,750 in dividends; Ex-Speaker Powell's wife had drawn a total of $29,575 on the stock for which she laid down only...
Pained Cries. Nobody was more embarrassed than ex-Newspaperman Mulroy, who protested that he only bought the stock as a "flyer," long after the 1949 bill was passed. "I wish the damned thing hadn't turned out to be so successful," he lamented. Snapped his old employer, the Sun-Times: "Racetrack operators don't cut people into their profits without a reason . . . if Mulroy doesn't understand this he's not smart enough to be an assistant to the governor...
...Denver, Msgr. John R. Mulroy challenged a survey on religious beliefs and attitudes among 788 Protestant and Roman Catholic students at the University of Denver. Said he: "A survey to reveal differences in their attitudes has no validity in the Catholic Church. If students do not believe alike, then they are not Catholics...
...will lose its sour-faced executive editor, E. Z. ("Dimmy") Dimitman, whom Field imported from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dimmy never did have much use for his boss's earnest crusades, and he has less use for tabs. His successor (with the title of managing editor): James Mulroy, who as a Daily News police reporter won a Pulitzer Prize for cracking the Loeb-Leopold murder case...