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friend’s uncle had just been elected

Irish Catholics were represented by director John Ford, actors James Cagney and Pat O’Brien, and Los Angeles bishop John J. Cantwell. The event was organized by Hollywood leftists Dorothy Parker and Donald Ogden Stewart. Other attendees included screenwriter and author Rupert Hughes, actor Paul Muni, and actress Gloria Stuart.

Jim Hill wasted little time, after gaining full control of the Saint Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba, in sending Farley packing. Hill showed little sensitivity to the old man’s ego, to his greed, or to his clear ability to retaliate. When Farley confronted Hill in the spring of 1879 with the impossible demand that he be made a director of the new

Hollywood was running the risk of federal intervention if the movie business could not get its act together. Just as baseball found its commissioner after the 1919 Black Sox scandal (a rigged World Series), movies found their czar.

After Jack Warner and other moguls pledged $5,000 each, Warner convinced thirty of his employees to collectively donate another $2,600. Lewis’s operation would thwart assassination and sabotage plots, including one to kill many Hollywood figures. Nazi groups would never achieve success in prewar Los Angeles, thanks to Lewis and his spies, who were