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...Remo's tenants are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bijur, who pay $5,000 a year for nine rooms. Mrs. Bijur, thirtyish and blonde, is a great-granddaughter of the William Mooney (no relation to California's Tom Mooney) who founded Manhattan's Tammany Hall. Lawyer Bijur's late father was Nathan Bijur, a justice of New York's Supreme Court, and his first cousin is Adman George Bijur. The Harry Bijurs have three servants, a Packard, an active interest in Catholic charities, no leanings toward parlor pinkery. They might well tire of having strikers picket...
...Mooney's friends later proved that both the 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...
...last week it was opened and closed for good. Governor Olson brought Tom Mooney, dressed in a neat striped prison-made suit, from San Quentin to Sacramento. The grey-haired convict stepped up beside the grey-haired Governor before an audience of 500 in the Assembly chamber. He listened to a speech in which Culbert Olson simply stated his conviction that the Preparedness Day bombing was not the work of Tom Mooney. The Governor waited 30 seconds for someone to contradict him before he handed over an unconditional pardon...
...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...