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¶ Pausing from his potato-peeling in San Quentin prison, Thomas Mooney said that he was convinced that Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of California would not grant him the pardon for which Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York went 3,000 mi. to beg last month...
Birthdays. Faith, Hope and Charity Jenkins (112); Frank Billings Kellogg (75); Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), (69); Harvey Samuel Firestone (63); Edwin Arlington Robinson (62); Princess Maria of Italy (17).
Bomber. Accustomed to excoriation by his own city's newspapers, Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York was disagreeably surprised to find himself peppered with hot linotype metal from the Press of California and particularly of San Francisco, where he arrived last week to agitate "as a private...
During San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day Parade, a bomb exploded on Market Street, killed ten people, wounded 40 others. Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, labor agitators, were convicted of the crime, went to jail for life. Their trials were later shown to have been honeycombed with perjured...
All these antics caused World Court Judge Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime U. S. Secretary of State and onetime "Nervous Nelly," to observe boldly from his fireside in St. Paul, Minn, last week: "The time for secret diplomacy in grave instances of this kind is past! Private conversations are apt to...