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Died. Charles Marron Fickert, 64, onetime District Attorney of San Francisco, prosecutor of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombings; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. After his successful prosecution of Mooney and Billings, Attorney Fickert twice ran unsuccessfully for re-election as District Attorney, once ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California. He always swore that Mooney and Billings got a fair trial, though for the rest of his life he was the object of threats and imprecations. When Convict Mooney heard of Attorney Fickert's death he said bitterly: "He'll be chiefly known...
...every year to a clergyman, and only one can devote ceremonies to a Roman Catholic priest who was a Congressman. To Detroit, last week brought Gabriel Richard Day, the lyoth anniversary of the birth of a Catholic who helped build the city. Under the chairmanship of Catholic Archbishop Edward Mooney, Michigan's Catholic Governor Frank Murphy and Dr. Joseph Anderson Vance of Detroit's First Presbyterian Church, the day was celebrated with high mass, a parade, a banquet, a speech by onetime Governor Chase Salmon Osborn, author of a biography of Father Richard, and a wreath-laying...
Last week Most Rev. Edward Mooney, new Archbishop of Detroit, cracked down on his most famed priest, Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, as had been predicted he might (TIME. June 14). To reporters Father Coughlin had said that Justice Black's appointment was a monument to President Roosevelt's "personal stupidity." had further opined that Catholicism and the C.I.O. are incompatible. Last week in his official Michigan Catholic, Archbishop Mooney expressed his regret for Father Coughlin's language, took issue with him on his reasoning. Two days later Father Coughlin announced that he was canceling his contract...
Detroit's new Archbishop Edward Mooney told Rev. William Henigan that golf might well be the barometer of a priest's endeavors. Said he: "If your score is over 100 you are neglecting your golf-if it falls below 90, you are neglecting your parish...
...Archbishop Mooney consistently plays under...