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Precedent. On July 22, 1916, a bomb exploded during San Francisco's Preparedness Day parade. Ten people were killed, 40 wounded. Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, labor agitators who had been prominent in unionizing street railway employes, were convicted of the crime. For the past 15 years liberal and labor organizations have been trying to get them out of prison. Thousands of dollars have been spent in propagandizing their cause, a thorn in the side of every California governor. Precedent is the first play in their behalf...
...presenting Precedent, Playwright I. J. Golden has turned the stage of the Provincetown Playhouse, experimental theatre where Eugene O'Neill's dramas were first presented, into a soap box. Only thinly disguised, San Francisco is called Queen City; Thomas J. Mooney is called Delaney. Discarding dramatic pretense, Precedent is a biased record of how a traction magnate has Delaney "framed," how the foes of Labor trump up evidence to send Delaney to jail and keep him there in spite of retrials, rehearings, appeals. In the midst of this great legal struggle, Delaney sits alone, an individual almost forgotten...
Franklin D. Mooney, president of Atlantic Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines, became a director of U. S. Lines on the request of the Shipping Board (see above...
Last week Mr. Mooney returned from Cuba. Said he: "While some of us may be busy with our own companies ... we must not fail in our efforts on the North Atlantic, the most highly competitive trade lane in the world...
...Shipping Board went ahead with its payment after U. S. Lines agreed to elect certain new directors. These were: Edward Nash Hurley, onetime (1917-19) Shipping Board chairman; Ira Alexander Campbell, general counsel to American Steamship Owners Association; Robert L. Hague, vice president of Standard Shipping Co.; Franklin D. Mooney, president of Atlantic Gulf and West Indies Steamship Lines...