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Died. Warren K. Billings, 79, radical labor agitator who was unjustly convicted of planting a bomb that killed ten persons during a 1916 parade in San Francisco; in Redwood City, Calif. Billings and co-defendant Tom Mooney were condemned on testimony that was perjured and heavily biased because of antileftist sentiment. The case provoked a worldwide protest that focused on Mooney, the better known of the two. Billings spent 23 years in prison, where he learned watchmaking. Freed in 1939 and pardoned in 1961, he opened a shop only blocks from the scene of the bombing...
...Yeah, that's one of the things he does. Daly acts as a conduit for information. He talks to me, talks to the Boss, writes to people, and does all the other things lobbyists do."--James P. Mooney, assistant to Cong, John Brademas (D-Ind.), (Brademas, who happened to be a member of the Conference Committee on the Higher Education bill, is a Harvard Overseer...
Whatever the frequency of visits or opinions of Mooney. Thompson and Donsanto, both Daly and Schmidt have some arguments against the lobbyist label. Among them is what they claim to be primarily a listening role at the nation's capital...
MARTIN C. MOONEY...
...period he cultivated unrivaled sources on both sides of the law. Smith also became known for the unorthodox tactics he used in his dogged pursuit of the Mob, which included crashing gangland soirees. When Smith showed up uninvited at a $20,000 wedding reception for the daughter of Sam ("Mooney") Giancana, the reputed Mafia chieftain pleaded for privacy. "Look at that kid," said Giancana, pointing to his new son-in-law. "Now everybody is going to hook him up with me. No one will hire him. I'll have to give him a .45 and put him to work...