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During the depression, the News printed a letter pleading for a job for Michael Moroney, who was broke and whose wife was pregnant with a second child. Next day a young woman, who said she was a social worker, showed up at the Moroney home with groceries and took two-year-old Mary Agnes Moroney "around the corner" to buy her clothes. She never came back with the child. The last word about Mary Agnes came a week later. An unidentified woman wrote the Moroneys that "my cousin. Julia Otis" had taken the girl in grief over the loss...
Blood & Teeth. Seven months ago, while working on a feature on missing persons, Reporter Wright noticed that the two girls and five sons later born to Mrs. Moroney all looked remarkably alike. Under a picture of the family she wrote: "Would there be a 24-year-old woman anywhere who resembles these children, and who might possibly be the long-lost Mary Agnes?" Her question was answered quickly. In California, where the Oakland Tribune ran the picture, a young auto mechanic said the Moroneys looked just like his 24-year-old wife, Mary Beck McClelland, who had been adopted...
Deep in the heart of northern California's majestic Siskiyou Mountains last week a little, freckle-faced, 109-lb. girl was doing a man-sized job for the U.S. war effort. Her name: Dorothea Reddy Moroney. Her business: mining chrome-essential in armor plate, shells and machine tools but now one of the scarcest metals...
...Lansing State Journal. Division Superintendent F. W. Openlander of Reo Motor Car Co. goes to Olds Motor Administration Building to lead discussions of Current Industrial Problems. Lawyer William H. Wise teaches Effective Speaking ("Not more talk, but more effective talk") at the Reo Club House. James E. Moroney, young Olds purchasing executive who owns 1,800 reproductions of paintings, lectures on the History of Art ("A cultural course led by a very competent authority") in Capital National Bank's club room...
James Bryce--Bingham Reader v. Macclesfield--Moroney, Spitzer...