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Shortly after Tom Mooney was jailed 22 years ago his wife, Rena, then 38, was removed from the committees for his defense, was not active in organized attempts to free him. Tom swore he would have little more to do with her than was necessary for appearance sake. When he was released last month, Rena, somewhat tarnished in appearance, did not ride with him to receive his pardon. Since then they have seen little of each other. Newspapers hinted at a divorce; Tom called the rumors "lying statements by my enemies." But last week Rena...
...Thomas J. Mooney has been simmering like an Irish Volcano." (TIME...
...inference is that Mooney is Irish. He is not. Mconey is not the name he was born...
...Mooney's grandparents emigrated to the U. S. from County Mayo, Ireland. If that makes their grandson a Russian, Stalin is a Dutchman...
Next day, to make his own principles articulate, Archbishop Mooney summoned all the 542 priests of his archdiocese-including one whose parish work is something of a side line, and whose love for labor is not great, Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie"*) Coughlin. As a starter in helping "Christian workers to train themselves in principle and technique to assume the leadership in the unions which their numbers justify," Archbishop Mooney proposed founding parish labor schools. Such schools, he said, might "sift the good from the bad in labor proposals, and be the defenders of sound, constructive union activity against . . . Communistic...