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...life imprisonment of Thomas Mooney on charges of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day Parade in which ten persons were killed: a new trial on one of six untried indictments (TIME, April 3). Convict Mooney expected that acquittal would strengthen his fight for pardon...
...more serious business is not in attendance, that the CRIMSON decried (even though in muffled tones) the recent attempt of the Liberal Club to condemn Hitler's "All Fools" German Regime, that the CRIMSON, with characteristic puerility attempted to disparage the recent protest meeting in the Scottsboro and Mooney cases by such a distortion of the events of the meeting, that, unless one read the article closely, one would gather from the biased and doltish headlines "Arguments Break Out at Meeting of Liberals," that the main event of the meeting was the occurrence of friction within the club. This...
...heated discussion broke out at the joint protest meeting last night against legal injustice in the Scottsboro and Tom Mooney cases conducted by the Liberal Club and the National Students' League...
...second speaker, M. S. Tarnopol. grE.S., of the permanent Boston society for justice in the Mooney case, presented the facts in that case. He showed that Mooney was convicted on the testimony of hired witnesses, and that the prosecuting attorney had previously been employed by a detective agency to watch the activities of Mooney in a labour union. He concluded with a request for financial aid in order that the National Students League might send a delegate to a nation-wide United Front Conference...
...almost universal protest directed against Alabaman jurisdiction has been based on a number of beliefs and sympathies, but the one outstanding sentiment has been that the Scottsboro boys have not been granted fair trials. As in the Mooney case, it is a question of procedure and not of innocence. It has been evident to all those who have given even a slight inspection to the affair that in the trials at Scottaboro and Docatur the jurors were subject to an overwhelming prejudicial influence, which rendered their decisions far from impartial. At times the prisoners had to be protected...