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Lauren Landis was in trouble and she was alone.
In a CNN interview, John Landis said the movie was " based on Chris Miller's real fraternity at Dartmouth ", Alpha Delta Phi.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, his role was turned over to full-time director of OCD, James M. Landis.
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.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (; November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944 ) was an American jurist who served as a federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death.
Landis was born in Millville, Ohio in 1866, his name a spelling variation on the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the American Civil War, where his father was wounded in 1864.
Though Landis was reversed on appeal, he was seen as a judge determined to rein in big business.
In 1920, Judge Landis was a leading candidate when American League and National League team owners, embarrassed by the Black Sox scandal and other instances of players throwing games, sought someone to rule over baseball.
Landis was given full power to act in the sport's best interest, and used that power extensively over the next quarter-century.
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.
Landis was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by a special vote shortly after he died in 1944.
The five Landis boys in November 1882 ; Kenesaw ( second from left ) was almost sixteen years old.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis was born in Millville, Ohio, the sixth child and fourth son of Abraham Hoch Landis, a physician, and Mary Kumler Landis, on November 20, 1866.
When Kenesaw was eight, the elder Landis moved his family to Delphi, Indiana and subsequently to Logansport, Indiana where the doctor purchased and ran several local farms — his war injury had caused him to scale back his medical practice.
Landis applied for a job as a brakeman, but was laughingly dismissed as too small.
Griffin won, and Landis was rewarded with a civil service job in the Indiana Department of State.
At that time, in Indiana, an applicant needed only to prove that he was 21 and of good moral character, and Landis was admitted.

Landis and born
* Bill Landis was a baseball player born, raised in, and still lives in Hanford.
* Mark Landis ( born 1955 ), art dealer, philanthropist, alleged donor of art forgeries to 43 museums in 20 states since 1987, used aliases Steven Gardiner and Father Arthur Scott
* Harry Richard Landis, one of the last surviving World War I veterans, was born near Palmyra
Baseball's first commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis was born in Millville.
* Harry Richard Landis, one of the last surviving World War I veterans was born near Hannibal.
Landis was born in Tokyo, Japan, where his parents were teachers at a missionary school.
Jesse Royce Landis was born Jessie Royce Medbury in Chicago, Illinois.
Landis was born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste in Fairchild, Wisconsin.
John David Landis ( born August 3, 1950 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.
* Floyd Landis ( born 1975 ), American cyclist
Landis was born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
Forrest Landis ( born August 9, 1994 ) is an American child actor.
Floyd Landis ( born October 14, 1975 ) is a retired American cyclist who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory in 2010.
Óscar Pereiro Sío ( born August 3, 1977 ) is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer best known for winning the 2006 Tour de France after the original winner, Floyd Landis, was disqualified for failing a doping test after his impressive stage 17 victory.

Landis and Jewish
* Landis, Joseph C. ( translator and editor ), The Great Jewish Plays.

Landis and family
After filming ended, Landis and his family went to London: then he was approached by Michael Jackson to make a video for his song, " Thriller ".
Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: " If I had been the agent for one of the stars, like Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Farnsworth or Kathryn Harrold, I think I would have protested to the front office that Landis was engaging in cinematic auto-eroticism and that my clients were getting lost in the middle of the family reunion.

Landis and Chicago
* 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
After Gresham's death in 1895, Landis refused an offer of an ambassadorship, and returned to Chicago to practice law and marry.
Landis declined the diplomatic post, preferring to return to Chicago to begin a law practice and to marry Winifred Reed, daughter of the Ottawa, Illinois postmaster.
Landis built a corporate law practice in Chicago ; with the practice doing well, he deeply involved himself in Republican Party politics.
" A. L. Sloan of the Chicago Herald-American, a friend of Landis, recalled:
Landis charged the jury that it " was the duty of the defendant diligently in good faith to get from the Chicago & Alton ... the lawful rate ".
Judge Landis enjoys a smoke as he takes in a baseball game in Chicago.
When the Cubs players persisted with their remarks, Moriarty took the unusual step of clearing the entire Chicago bench-a maneuver that got him fined by then-commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
Bill Landis died in Chicago on December 23, 2008.

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