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...sponsored by the American Foundation. It was called the Committee on Russian-American Relations and its membership included such potent figures as Morgan-Partner Thomas W. Lament, whose son Corliss is a near-Communist; Harvard Economist Frank W. Taussig; Lawyer Paul D. Cravath, a Russian recognitionist; President James D. Mooney of General Motors Export Co., whose trading field is the world at large; Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard Law School, a liberal of the first water; Engineer Hugh L. Cooper who built the Dnieprostroy Dam for U. S. S. R. Modestly buried away in the middle of the committee list...
Agitator. Either because of police vigilance or because his radical sympathizers decided for once that a demonstration might prejudice his case, the trial of Tom Mooney in San Francisco was completely calm. As a world public now knows...
...Mooney was tried with Warren K. Billings for bombing the city's 1916 Preparedness Day parade. Mooney was given a death sentence, later commuted to life imprisonment, on the specific charge of killing Hetta Knapp. Six other charges relating to six other victims were dropped. In the past 17 years four California Governors and the State's highest courts have refused, in the face of strong national and international pressure, or have been unable to exonerate Mooney...
Last week's case was based on the death of the eighth victim, Arthur Nelson. The Mooney defense hoped that by reviving the case it might make a matter of court record the snarl of perjured testimony which originally helped convict the 50-year-old onetime labor agitator. But it takes two sides to make even a court fight. The District Attorney, a Mooney protagonist, refused to bring charges. His assistant told Judge Louis H. Ward he had no case. Up rose Agitator Mooney to demand his constitutional right to defend himself, to put evidence of his innocence before...
Still unaffected was Mooney's prior conviction. All that he had gained was additional publicity for his case, perhaps grounds for a second pardon plea to unsympathetic Governor Rolph. His counsel held out the hope that last week's acquittal might provide cause for an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court on the assumption that Mooney is now deprived of his liberty without due process of law. Sticking out his hands for his handcuffs, Tom Mooney went back to San Quentin Prison to wait some more...