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Most enthusiastic signature-collector of all was one Irving ("Fig") Newton, of Los Angeles. Boyish-looking Fig Newton, Cherokee-blooded and a onetime vaudevillian, promoted seven separate petitions, ranging from a Sunday closing blue law to freedom for Political Prisoner Tom Mooney. Most interesting Newton proposal was a $100-a-month pension for the needy blind and disabled to be financed by a State-run lottery. Chairman of the Lottery Board, at $10,000 a year, would be Irving ("Fig") Newton...
...stole his father's copper mine, ruins them separately with deliberately prolonged, sadistic finesse. Tuning up for the last revenge, on capitalism, Cristobal begins by short-selling the world's best shoe and smelting stock in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, utilities in honor of Tom Mooney, and so on through all the martyrs of radicalism. Meanwhile he has married a poor, tuberculous girl, returned to Spain to finance an uprising. A hero in the first days of the Spanish Civil War, Cristobal suggests buying off the Rebels, goes down because he has held his ten-billion-dollar...
...Mooney or Muni...
Throughout your Tom Mooney account (TIME, March 21) you imply that there is a studied, histrionic quality in his behavior (apparently confusing Mooney with Muni). In the penultimate paragraph you dispense with implications and make the blatant statement that "Mooney ended ... as usual with a burst of tears, finally recovered enough presence of mind to pose," etc. Does this mean that a man who has not the tact, or art, to conceal his emotion on his respite from prison cannot seriously be considered a victim of injustice...
What Convict Mooney's appearance last week amounted to was merely one more milestone in the weird marathon of his effort not to get out of jail-since he undoubtedly could get a parole-but to prove his innocence. The Assembly had subpoenaed Mooney because its strong labor bloc hoped that, if the whole body voted to give him a meaningless "legislative pardon," Governor Frank Merriam might give him a real pardon. Two days after hearing Convict Mooney, the Assembly went on record 41-10-29 as favoring a pardon, a few hours later the Senate defeated the motion...