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...third time Tom Mooney passed out of San Quentin Prison last week, was ferried under guard across the bay to San Francisco, where he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing the local Preparedness Day parade in 1916, with a loss of ten lives. So often has the militant U. S. Labor movement thrust his case into court in a consistently unsuccessful effort to exonerate it and him, free him from a life sentence, that today Tom Mooney has come to think of himself as an important public personage in his own right. Now the Mooney lawyers...
...platoon of newshawks and cameramen who met Mooney at the San Francisco jail found him, as always, cocked and primed to talk about his "martyrdom." He expected no redress from the California Court, he said, but had great hopes for a final victory before the U. S. Supreme Court. Twenty pounds heavier than when he left San Francisco, he was tanned, seemed fully alert despite his 52 years and nearly a generation behind bars. His "prison heart," a nervous cardio-vascular affliction, did not appear to bother him, but in the general excitement he could not keep back the tears...
Preparing to rehash all the old familiar points of the case, Mooney's counsel during the first week introduced only one novelty: the theory that the fatal explosive was not planted in the street by Mooney or anyone else, but was tossed off a roof by unknown dynamiters. Admittedly the defense lost an opening play to the State's Deputy Attorney General when the Supreme Court refused to define the admissibility of testimony which the referee might hear, a move which, according to Mooney, invited the State to fight him with material ranging from the Haymarket Riots to last year...
...sweltering days they wrestled with such subjects as how and when to stabilize world currencies; how to establish a "Supreme Court" for banking & currency; "trial marriage" of the dollar and pound sterling; when to return to the gold standard; how to avoid returning to the gold standard. James David Mooney, General Motors' famed vice president in charge of exports, gave a few quick and cogent suggestions for reviving world trade, without attracting serious attention. After presiding at one session of the conference President Harper Sibley of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce politely surmised: "If all economists were laid...
...incident or anything to mar the beautiful warmth of the reception." What Minister Owsley was so careful to explain he had not seen was a small riot of Irish Communists along his route to Dublin Castle. The burden of the Communist hullabaloo was, with magnificent irrelevancy, "RELEASE TOM MOONEY." Ostensibly because the California Supreme Court has turned down Tom Mooney's appeals four times, the Irish Reds threw around leaflets saying, "Owsley does not represent the American people and therefore can not expect cead mille failte...