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Last November acid-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler dug up evidence in Chicago that in 1922 William Bioff had been convicted of pandering, sentenced to six months in jail, released after serving just eight days (TIME, Aug. 21, Dec. 4). This was news because Bioff is western representative and reputed boss of the potent International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (Stagehands' Union...
...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...
Then Governor Horner postponed the hearing. Then he postponed his decision, announced that he would hold another hearing on Jan. 10. One month after Columnist Pegler's evidence had appeared in print the Chicago Daily News came out with an editorial asking: Why Delay...
...Requiem for the soul of the late Heywood Broun. There were faces from Washington (Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter), from City Hall (Mayor LaGuardia), from Broadway (Tallulah Bankhead, George M. Cohan, George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin), from newspaper row (pavement-pounding reporters along with Franklin P. Adams, Westbrook Pegler, Rollin Kirby, Roy W. Howard, Herbert Bayard Swope). Many friends of Heywood Broun, accustomed to going to church only for funerals and weddings, did not know when to kneel or bow. Few of them had ever heard a funeral oration like that which was presently delivered to them...
...social sciences are sociology, economics and political science; part of psychology (attitudes, traits, abilities, collective behavior) and cultural (as distinguished from physical) anthropology. They overflow the bounds of science into law, history, education, linguistics. *Writing on the racetrack information racket last week, Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler observed: "Chicago has been so rotten for years that the town may seem to be abandoned and utterly without any will to turn square, but, for the first time in the modern history of the city, there are some stirrings of conscience and civic decency...