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The princess's relativesplayed by Jessie Royce Landis, Estelle Winwood, and Brian Aherneare comically eccentric, and Agnes Moorehead, as the queen who shows up near the end to find out if the princess has made the grade, is crankily imperious.
John Landis made a cameo in Oz's film The Muppets Take Manhattan.
Despite this, Cicotte and his alleged co-conspirators were subsequently made permanently ineligible for baseball by Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Major League Baseball's new commissioner, recently hired to restore the integrity of the game in the wake of the 1919 scandal.
" The move mimicked the decision Major League Baseball had made in hiring judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as League Commissioner the previous year to quell questions about the integrity of baseball in the wake of the 1919 World Series gambling scandal ; The New York Times even called Hays the " screen Landis ".
The twins made several appearances along with William Shatner, John Landis, and many others in the American animated series Eek!
Landis wrote several newspaper and magazine articles about her experiences during the war, including the 1944 book Four Jills in a Jeep, which was later made into a movie, costarring Kay Francis, Martha Raye, and Mitzi Mayfair.
" This made Landis realize that he would never be able to confront the undead and gave him the idea for a film in which a man would go through the same thing.
After a three-month investigation, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis made it clear that he did not agree with the argument presented by Slapnicka or Cleveland president Alva Bradley, but awarded Feller to the Indians and required the club to pay a $ 7, 500 fine.
Landis made the decision partly due to the testimony of Feller and his father, who wanted his son to play for Cleveland and who had also told Landis he would take the issue to court.
Following this, Landis worked on many films made in Europe ( especially in Italy and England ), most notably, Once Upon a Time in the West, El Condor and A Town Called Bastard ( a. k. a. A Town Called Hell ).
In 1971, Landis made his feature debut as a director in the US with Schlock.
The gorilla suit for the film was made by Rick Baker -- the beginning of a long-term collaboration between Landis and Baker.
The rivalry might have been a friendly one, as Spielberg makes a cameo appearance in Blues Brothers ( as the unnamed desk clerk near the very end ) and Landis had made a cameo in 1941 as a messenger.
This is an advertisement for the tour at Universal Studios, from John Landis movies made for Universal.
Although he didn't direct the movie, he made a cameo appearance as a doctor in the Sam Raimi movie Darkman, starring Liam Neeson ( Landis is one of the doctors examining Neeson after he was burned in the building.
However, after the scandal broke in late 1920, Felsch, along with seven other players, was made permanently ineligible for organized baseball by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
After the Centennial Committee made six selections in 1939 from the figures of the 19th century, baseball's Commissioner Landis completely revised the committee's membership, designating it the Hall of Fame Committee and establishing it as the institution's permanent governing body.
Landis died on November 25, even as plans were being made to extend his contract for a new 7-year term.
Both were suspended for the start of the 1922 season, but Ruth made a personal appeal to Commissioner Landis.
The film is notable for a large number of cameo appearances made by various filmmakers and directors, including Landis himself.
The earliest descriptions of the axonal growth cone were made by the Spanish neurobiologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal in the late 19th century .< ref > Landis, S. C. " Neuranal Growth Cones.
Landis often pushed the pace in the mountains to break the pack before Armstrong made his final move.

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At age 21, Landis applied to become a lawyer — there were then no educational or examination requirements for the Indiana bar.
In December 1915, still with no word from Landis, the parties reached a settlement, and the Federal League disbanded.
Landis was reversed by the Supreme Court, which held he had no jurisdiction in the matter.
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Nonetheless, Landis was convinced Kauff was guilty and argued that players of " undesirable reputation and character " had no place in baseball.
In the film Eight Men Out Landis ( played by John Anderson ) is portrayed to have said " no player who throws a ball game ... will ever play professional baseball again.
Landis banished him on this basis, stating " Men associating with crooks and gamblers could expect no leniency.
This incident was officially investigated by Commissioner Landis in 1927, but due to contradictions, no action was taken.
In the aftermath of the Black Sox Scandal, newly-appointed Commissioner of Baseball Kenesaw Mountain Landis declared no player who threw a game or promised to throw a game would ever be allowed in baseball -- effectively ending any realistic chance of Chase returning to the majors.
In the retrospective interviews included on the 2007 DVD release of Coming to America, John Landis and screenwriters Barry Blaustein and David Sheffield make no mention of Art Buchwald's lawsuit, and maintain that the film's story originated with Eddie Murphy, with Blaustein and Sheffield writing the screenplay from Murphy's 25-page treatment.
Denim only stayed for the first two seasons, Kelemata was no more reliable, and others like Landis & Gyr vanished as quickly as they had come.
Although Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis remarked after the meeting that there was no rule on the books denying blacks entry into the league, he had stood in way of integration for more than 20 years.
Barber wrote Philadelphia Mint Superintendent John Landis on that what Roosevelt wanted was impossible ; he had no dies nor any clear idea of how Saint-Gaudens had planned to reduce the relief.
But the following day, during Stage 17, Landis set a very high pace on the first climb of the day that no other rider could match.

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* The Landis MarketPlace opened in 2011 as a two-level indoor public market and includes an Amish market on the lower level and several vendors on the upper level.
Eager to restore public confidence in their sport's integrity, baseball owners gave Landis absolute power and a lifetime contract, which permitted the former judge to assume more power over the sport than a commissioner in any sport has held since.
The members stated that any delay in electing Landis might have been resulted in an unfortunate increase in public pressure, possibly creating the impression that the move was somehow forced rather than voluntary.

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Nevertheless, regardless of what Landis ' exact words were, following his statement it was universally understood that all eight implicated White Sox would be banned from Major League Baseball for life.

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* 1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $ 29. 4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers ; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
The AVL tree is named after its two Soviet inventors, G. M. Adelson-Velskii and E. M. Landis, who published it in their 1962 paper " An algorithm for the organization of information.
Baseball's new commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis took decisive action, banning the tainted players from Major League Baseball for life.
John Landis recalled that " Although he was extremely ill he told me he could not die until he voted for Obama for President and he did.
Moriarty was disciplined for this action by then-commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
Landis received national attention in 1907 when he fined Standard Oil of Indiana more than $ 29 million for violating federal laws forbidding rebates on railroad freight tariffs.
Landis was widely praised for cleaning up the game, although some of his decisions in the Black Sox matter remain controversial: supporters of " Shoeless Joe " Jackson and Buck Weaver contend that he was overly harsh with those players.
Others blame Landis for, in their view, delaying the racial integration of baseball.
Abraham Landis had been wounded fighting on the Union side at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia, and when his parents proved unable to agree on a name for the new baby, Mary Landis proposed that they call him Kenesaw Mountain.
Landis applied for a job as a brakeman, but was laughingly dismissed as too small.
In 1886, Landis first ventured into Republican Party politics, supporting a friend, Charles F. Griffin for Indiana Secretary of State.
A seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois was vacant ; President Theodore Roosevelt offered it to Lowden, who declined it and recommended Landis.
Other recommendations from Illinois politicians followed, and Roosevelt nominated Landis for the seat.
The mahogany and marble chamber was, according to Landis biographer David Pietrusza, " just the spot for Landis's sense of the theatrical.
" When a young man stood before him for sentencing after admitting to stealing jewels from a parcel, the defendant's wife stood near him, infant daughter in her arms, and Landis mused what to do about the situation.
" In an early case, Landis fined the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company the maximum $ 4, 000 for illegally importing workers, even though Winifred Landis's sister's husband served on the corporate board.
In another decision, Landis struck down a challenge to the Interstate Commerce Commission's ( ICC ) jurisdiction over rebating, a practice banned by the Elkins Act of 1903 in which railroads and favored customers agreed that the customers would pay less than the posted tariff, which by law was to be the same for all shippers.
To aid the judge in determining the sentence, Landis issued a subpoena for Rockefeller to testify as to Standard Oil's assets.
A lifelong baseball fan, Landis often slipped away from the courthouse for a White Sox or Cubs game.
' " Landis reserved judgment, and the parties waited for his ruling.
* Mars Crossing ( 2000 ) by Geoffrey A. Landis, about a stranded expedition ; which won the Locus Award for best first novel.

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