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...never meant to be a martyr. He was a wandering iron molder, an obscure left-wing Socialist, an unknown writer for a little, radical West Coast paper. Few Americans had ever heard of Tom Mooney until he went to prison for San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day bombing, and, if his guilt had been certain, few Americans would ever have heard of him again...
...whom most of the world believed innocent, Tom Mooney grew famous; he was labor's international cause célèbre. When he was finally pardoned in 1939, after 22 years, a caravan of 200 automobiles followed him from prison to San Francisco; he walked bareheaded leading "a great labor parade, spoke to thousands from a platform at City Hall. Parents held up their children to see Tom Mooney...
Flat on his back in a San Francisco hospital, Tom Mooney, at 59, had only a few visitors, only a few money letters from friends. From his bed he conducted a feeble campaign to free Communist Earl Browder. Last week anticlimactic death came to Tom Mooney...
...first battle with Columbia in New York last week, the Crimson hoopsters lost 56 to 44 to the Lions, who, by virtue of this, their only victory are now in fifth place in the league standings. Coach Paul Mooney will start the same starting lineup in the hopes of repeating the winning combination. This puts Captain Stewart McIlvennan, who scored 15 points in the first game, beside A1 Pashayan in the two forward slots, with Harry Allison at center. Herb Maack and Les Martens will start at guard...
...tonight's game with Coach Paul Mooney's Columbia five at New York, Harvard should be favored to grab its second league win in four games unless the heavy traveling in the past few days doesn't produce unfavorable results...