Word: mahoney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only Communists, cranks and reactionaries were not wanted?and they were very much not wanted. Alexander Howatt, radical miner leader who attended the Farmer Labor Convention in St. Paul (TIME, June 30) was at hand but was not welcome. So was William Mahoney, who organized the St. Paul Convention and was a member of the National Committee of the C. P. P. A. So was Jacob Coxey, known in 1894 as leader of Coxey's Army, claiming to be a representative of the Populist Party. As much as possible, these people were ruled out. No one wants less...
...sketches themselves at times are rather forced to beat a dishpan to excite humor. But Winnie Lightner, abetted by the insouciant Will Mahoney and the boisterous Patricola, carries them along by dint of magnet ic personality, sometimes called high animal spirits. And the revue contains two of the best travesties on darky melodies ever perpetrated...
...Municipal Auditorium at St. Paul opened the Farmer-Labor Progressive Convention. It was prophesied that it would assemble 2,000 delegates and 10,000 visitors. William Mahoney of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party had called the Convention. If all the people he had expected had come, there would have been a great jam?the Auditorium holds only about...
...organizations but the leaders. In the first place there was William Mahoney, who called the convention, thoroughly disgusted because Mr. La Follette and the A. F. of L. had despised his work. There was William Z. Foster, who began as an I. W. W., then went over to organized Labor, and finally deserted to Communism. Now he is head of the Workers' Party, the "overground" organization of the Communist Party which found it wise to "submerge" after one of its conventions, picturesquely staged amid Michigan sand dunes, had been raided and Foster, Ruthenberg and others arrested. There was Joseph Manley...
...Convention began with Mr. Mahoney's appearing before a curtain representing a sylvan scene. He delivered a keynote speech: "We have always employed methods sanctioned by the Constitution. We have always followed democratic and legal procedure. Our opponents have not. The ruling class never does use democratic and constitutional procedure unless it serves its ends...