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Frank Billings Kellogg, President Coolidge's Secretary of State. Denmark

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Nominations | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

The apparent purpose was to make MacDonald out a habitual liar who was perjuring himself now no less than he may have done at the Billings-Mooney trials. Time and again Preston would harshly ask: "Was that a lie?" "Weren't you lying when you said that?" When MacDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Radicals Retried | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Throughout the ordeal, however, MacDonald stuck to the main outline of his recantation. He claimed that police Captain Charles Goff had forced his identification of Billings and Mooney in the city prison, that District Attorney Fickert had put "a whole pack of lies" into his head which he repeated to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Radicals Retried | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Police Captain Goff testified that MacDonald had identified Billings and Mooney without any prompting from him. Another witness declared that he had heard MacDonald describe the bombing and the two men with the suitcase two hours after the explosion. The hearing unexpectedly broadened out when Miss Estelle Smith, onetime dental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Radicals Retried | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Because Mooney is a first offender, California's Governor Clement Calhoun Young is empowered to pardon him without the Supreme Court's recommendation, on his own initiative. But because the facts in the two cases are so intertwined, Governor Young was being guided largely by the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Radicals Retried | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

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