Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal State witnesses committed perjury. They produced photographs of Mooney with a clock in the background showing that he was over a mile from the explosion when it occurred. But after Governor William Dennison Stephens was induced by Woodrow Wilson to commute Mooney's death sentence to life imprisonment, four California Governors reopened the case only to snap it shut again...
Said Tom Mooney: "Governor Olson, I shall dedicate the rest of my life to work for the common good. . . . Dark and sinister forces of Fascist reactionism are threatening the world...
...hours later Governor Olson collapsed before a microphone at the State Fair Grounds, was hospitalized for nervous exhaustion. But Tom Mooney would not let his own impaired health stand in the way of the greatest day of his life. From Sacramento next day he motored to San Francisco at the head of a caravan of 20 cars that swelled to 200. In a parade San Francisco labor had arranged for him, Tom Mooney refused to ride in an automobile. He walked, bareheaded, ahead of the members of his old A. F. of L. Moulders' Union, ahead of Harry Bridges...
...begin a new year, they found democracy attempting to bring its self-defense propaganda as well as maps up to date. U. S. teachers, fresh from year-end conventions whose theme was democracy's defense, read in the U. S. Office of Education's publication, School Life, a reminder that State laws require them to teach their pupils devotion to the ideals and principles of democracy...
...predecessor. Behind him sat 2,500 rapt Chicagoans, many of them oldsters who had heard their first overture played under Thomas' energetic baton. Solemnly they listened while white-haired Stock conducted Debussy's Berceuse héroique, Richard Strauss's A Hero's Life, Beethoven's heroic Fifth Symphony...