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Claiming to be a lineal descendant of George Washington,* Mrs. Francois Berger Moran goes marketing in an ermine coat. Herbert Hoover used her house last autumn as a campaign headquarters...
...Fourth?That Governor Long's bedfellow and inseparable companion is Mr. James Brocato, alias 'Jimmie' Moran, keeper of notorious speakeasies, pal of gamblers and convicted lawbreaker...
...Bugs" Moran, the proprietor of the garage, was not among the dead. He was spending St. Valentine's Day in Detroit. Moran inherited the North Side mob from "Schemer" Drucci, who inherited it from "Hymie" Weiss, who inherited it from the late great Dion O'Bannion. The perforated bodies were those of Moran's brother-in-law and co-leader, James Clark; No. 1 Gunman Peter Gusenberg, Con-Man John Snyder, Gorilla Al Weinshank, John May, the man in overalls, and Reinhart Schwimmer. Frank Gusenberg, Pete's "Kid" brother, carrying 20 bullets, lived for three hours...
...West Side mob was under suspicion. Tony Lombardo, Capone's good friend, wilted last summer under a spray of bullets at Madison and Dearborn Streets (TIME, Sept. 17). And a shipment of Canadian whiskey from Detroit's "Purple Gang" to Capone was hijacked last fortnight, presumably by Moran...
...want her to deep down in your heart, and then you're sentenced and she relents, but she can't change the sentence, and you are standing in front of those rifles-well, you want the news to get there in time. Silliest shot is Lois Moran cauterizing a cut in George O'Brien's chest...