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...public record by the State's Attorney's office was the story which McLane in bolder mood had breathed to the grand jury. Two years ago, Nitti had summoned him to a conference. Present, according to McLane's testimony, were Willie Bioff, a convicted pander; Nick Dean, alias Circella, a convicted crook; Louis Romano, who McLane said was a former Capone bodyguard; and fleshy George E. Browne, recently raised from fourteenth to twelfth vice president...
Pegler turned his evidence over to State's Attorney Thomas James Courtney. Attorney Courtney promptly wired a warrant to Los Angeles, where William Bioff was watching over the union problems of Hollywood's cinema technicians, and Bioff was arrested. Before Pander Bioff could be extradited, Governor Henry Horner of Illinois would have to sign a writ of requisition. Governor Horner put off signing a writ. Instead, he ordered a hearing to decide whether or not he ought to sign it at all. In Los Angeles, William Bioff was once more set free...
Said Colonel William Franklin Knox's indignant newspaper: "Decent people are curious to know why it requires three weeks to determine whether a convicted pander should be brought back to complete a sentence ... for one of the most despicable, filthy offenses of which a man can be found guilty. . . . There is something decidedly rotten when this sort of thing continues indefinitely. . . . The public . . . is beginning to understand what this rotten thing is: THE BRAZENLY ACKNOWLEDGED ALLIANCE BETWEEN CRIMINALS AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS...
...wounded Northern soldier, Charles Pander Willard was detailed to tend the lighthouse on Loggerhead Island of the Dry Tortugas reef...
Your inference that Harvard College should pander to the demands of fanatical football fans even though it knows this to be "wrong" is foreign to the traditions of any free educational institution and to Harvard in particular. If an educational institution stands for anything it should stand for intellectual and moral honesty. Your suggestion that it should depart from this ideal (I do not deny than in the past it has not been constantly adhered to unfortunately) is a disgrace to your own integrity...