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...years before Tom Mooney went to jail, a farmer of Waterford, Conn. shot a golden eagle which had been raiding his chicken-run. The bird was only winged and the farmer took it to State Tree Warden Henry Fuller, who turned it over to Elmer Kenerson, New London's husky Superintendent of Parks. An animal-lover who knew something about veterinary science, Elmer Kenerson set the big bird's pinion, named it "Uncle Sam," built it a wooden cage 30 ft. high and 20 ft. wide around a tree in New London's wildish Riverside Park beside...
Extraordinary was the call because many a Californian is currently worrying himself into sick jitters over the Tom Mooney trial, the "Red Network," the San Francisco Industrial Association's secret dossiers on radicals, above all over what was first called the September and now the October "showdown on the waterfront''-the threatened recrudescence of last year's longshoremen's strike (TIME, June...
Dramatic moment of the week's hearings came when Tom Mooney, the one-time molder who claims he was framed by "the bosses" for agitating a streetcar strike, expounded his social views from the stand. Having had plenty of time since 1916 to acquaint himself with Marxian phraseology, he spoke easily of ''exploiting the workers" "working class struggle. "the historic objective." "I am a social revolutionist," he proudly declared, "one who believes all the wealth of the world should be socialized. ... I have always been in favor of the I. W. W. The President of the United States believes...
...Next day, having spread his doctrines through the nation's Press, oldtime "Wobbly" Mooney asked that they be expunged from the record as "irrelevant." To this the State's Deputy Attorney General readily agreed, satisfied that Mooney's statement had already had full effect in radical-hating California...
...bishops. 13 of the 18 archbishops. Notably present were: Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. Apostolic Delegate to the U. S.; Cincinnati's gentle Archbishop McNicholas. Legion of Decency founder; St. Louis' stern-faced Archbishop Glennon; Santa Fe's church-building Archbishop Gerken; Rochester's Bishop Mooney, an archbishop without an archdiocese; St. Paul's plump Archbishop Murray; Milwaukee's scholarly Archbishop Stritch; San Antonio's Archbishop Drossaerts; San Francisco's lately-installed Archbishop Mitty; New Orleans' German-born Archbishop Rummel; Dubuque's tall Archbishop Beckman...