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Apparently Navy's airplane-production staff, headed by onetime General Motors Man James D. Mooney, had made up its mind that Brewster needed a strong hand. From inside the plants came an account of the "inadequacy": that the FBI had found several dozen saboteurs working for Brewster (in the morning big swastika-shaped holes were sometimes found punched in plane wings); that when the company attempted to fire suspected men, the union intervened; that the Navy stepped in to end sabotage. From the plants also came rumors that confusion, inefficiency and mismanagement had delayed production. From aircraft circles came...
Chomp. In Los Angeles, hospital patient Letha Mooney, speechless, explained in writing that a woman named Lollipop had bitten her tongue off in a cafe brawl. Asked just how it happened, she wrote: "I don't know. It happened so fast...
...decision by Judge Vincent L. Leibell in U.S. District Court sticks. The suit, brought by three small stockholders, has been dragging on for five and a half years. The men who must pay are Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Donaldson Brown, Junius S. Morgan, George Whitney, James D. Mooney, Albert Bradley, John Thomas Smith and Seward Prosser...
...Claire L. Chennault's pilots described recent exploits of his famed Flying Tigers. His best news: one entire flight of Jap bombers annihilated. From London, two pilots of America's Eagle Squadron, flying with the R.A.F., spoke pleasantly of their life and adventures. One (Pilot Officer Jack Mooney) had just returned from ripping one of 18 Messerschmitts apart over France. Said the other (Fred Almos): "It's a good life; it's an exciting life, and we like...
Died. Tom Mooney, 59; after his fourth abdominal operation; in San Francisco...