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Exclusive Story (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is based, according to advertisements, on revelations made to its producers by Hearstling Martin Mooney, whose jailing for refusing to reveal to a grand jury the sources of his news stories about New York's numbers game, roughly coincided with Exclusive Story's premiere in Manhattan last week. The revelations range from the not particularly astounding information that racketeers browbeat small shopkeepers and sometimes shoot each other, to the more alarming but less plausible hypothesis that the Mono Castle (called in the picture the Mochado} was ignited by a shipload of liquid...
...Martin Mooney is a lean, hardboiled newshawk who likes dice and drink, prides himself on his intimacy with big-shot thugs. He says he first struck up his criminal acquaintanceship while serving 15 jail terms for nonpayment of alimony. Last week he was on his way back to jail, this time as martyr to an oldtime Press tradition...
...William Randolph Hearst's New York American, Reporter Mooney last spring wrote a series of articles "exposing" New York's "policy" (numbers game) racket. A Special Grand Jury floundering along in one of the city's perennial vice investigations hopefully summoned him, asked for names & addresses. Reporter Mooney refused to reveal the sources of his information. When he balked at answering the same questions asked by a General Sessions judge, he was sentenced to pay a $250 fine, serve 30 days in jail. The American quickly got him out of jail, carried his case...
...granting reporters the same right to protect confidences as lawyers, priests, physicians, husbands & wives. But judges generally respect the Press's tradition, knowing that the reporter who betrays one confidence would be unlikely to get more. Last week, however, New York's Court of Appeals confirmed Reporter Mooney 's sentence, brought him packing back from a script-writing job in Hollywood to serve his 30 days...
...Irish-looking, Cleveland-born James David Mooney is head of General Motors foreign sales and manufacturing, might rate as the most-traveled U. S. citizen. He once went from New York to London to Paris to Marseille to Port Said to Bombay to Madras to Singapore to Batavia to Singapore to Hongkong to Shanghai to Kobe to Osaka to Honolulu to San Francisco between Dec. 6 and March 5. In 1931 President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia conferred upon him the Order of the White Lion. He detests high tariffs, and while Herbert Hoover was President Mr. Mooney was urging the building...