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...contradictory. His own vehement denials of wrong-doing were impressively detailed. Of the five counts against him. he won easy acquittals on the first four. On the fifth, a catch-all charge of general misconduct, 45 out of 79 Senators found him guilty. That was not enough to convict. The prosecution lacked eight votes of the necessary two-thirds majority. His puffy face wrinkled with smiles. Judge Louderback had his hand pumped by Huey Long, said he would take a little vacation before returning to his bench...
Last week's case was based on the death of the eighth victim, Arthur Nelson. The Mooney defense hoped that by reviving the case it might make a matter of court record the snarl of perjured testimony which originally helped convict the 50-year-old onetime labor agitator. But it takes two sides to make even a court fight. The District Attorney, a Mooney protagonist, refused to bring charges. His assistant told Judge Louis H. Ward he had no case. Up rose Agitator Mooney to demand his constitutional right to defend himself, to put evidence of his innocence before...
...life imprisonment of Thomas Mooney on charges of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day Parade in which ten persons were killed: a new trial on one of six untried indictments (TIME, April 3). Convict Mooney expected that acquittal would strengthen his fight for pardon...
Spectacular as is the Government's effort to convict one Manhattan big banker of tax evasion, not so spectacular is it as another which last week was suggested: an effort to catch Andrew William Mellon for tax evasion. Louis T. McFadden, Congressman from Pennsylvania, charged in the House that Mr. Mellon in 1931 had sold 60,000 shares of Western Public Service, and 123,000 shares of Pittsburgh Coal to establish losses of $6,700,000, had through a Mellon-owned corporation repurchased them 31 days after the sale. Said Attorney General Cummings: "The charges are serious...
...Sing Sing Prison, the lilies on the chapel's altar at Easter services had been grown by Convict Owen ("Owney") Madden, famed Manhattan beer baron...