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Fighter & Fight. "Don't call me judge," Felix Frankfurter implored newsmen who stormed his Cambridge home after the appointment, "I'm not confirmed yet." Ten years ago, getting Fighter Frankfurter, defender of Tom Mooney and of Sacco & Vanzetti, by the Senate would have meant a sizable fight. Last week Tom Mooney walked out of jail, and it seemed that Felix Frankfurter would step as easily into the Supreme Court. Felix Frankfurter had become so relatively inoffensive that last September the arch-conservative legal profession, Gallup-polled, gave him five times as many votes for the Court...
...years roundfaced, balding Thomas J. Mooney has been simmering like an Irish volcano in San Quentin prison. There he was sent because someone put a bomb in a suitcase and left it on San Francisco's Market Street, where it blew up to kill ten and injure 40 marchers and spectators in a Preparedness Day Parade on July 22, 1916. Charged with the crime principally because he was a rough labor leader even in a day and place where roughness was the rule, 33-year-old Mooney was convicted along with 22-year-old Warren K. Billings...
Frankfurter appeared personally after two days of hearings in which witnesses assailed his political and social ideologies, cast doubt on his citizenship, questioned his membership in the Civil Liberties Union and his activities in the Tom Mooney band Sacco-Vanzetti cases, and raised the racial issue...
Famed California Convict Thomas Joseph Mooney, anticipating a full pardon by Governor Culbert Olson (due about January 15), made plans for the future after almost 22 years in prison: "My long-range work after I get out of prison will be to seek unity for the labor movement-a progressive unity that looks to the future instead of the past. ... I am sure that by living cautiously I can live another quarter century. I have no doubts about my ability to withstand the mental strain of release. My heart and mind have never been confined to prison walls...
...sound and enlightened as Black's was ill-considered and petty. For most of his twenty-five years at the Law School Frankfurter has symbolized to Boston's State Street interests a dangerous and bombthrowing form of liberalism, a reputation which he gained from his participation in the Tom Mooney commission and the Sacco-Vanzetti trails. In 1932 these interests heaved a sigh of relief when he refused his appointment to the Supreme Bench in Massachusetts. Then came the Court Bill, and he was believed to have broken with Roosevelt...