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Begging your pardon, we like our TIME terse, but complete. How did your Dave come to be called...
...city's newspapers, Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York was disagreeably surprised to find himself peppered with hot linotype metal from the Press of California and particularly of San Francisco, where he arrived last week to agitate "as a private citizen" for a pardon for Thomas Mooney. As he got off the Oakland ferry, Mayor Angelo Rossi and Mayor Walker's old friend Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. seemed glad enough to see him. A band perched in a truck played "The Sidewalks of New York" and the Governor's jaunty theme song "Happy...
Settled with his party in a suite at the fashionable St. Francis Hotel, with two Rolls-Royces at his beck and adjoining rooms for the newspaper boys, Mayor Walker pondered the uncomfortable predicament in which he had placed his friend Sunny Jim. If the Governor should pardon Thomas Mooney after 15 years in jail, people could say that it took the interference of a gaudy outsider to bring justice into the golden State. If he decided not to pardon him, the same people could say that the Governor had been frightened out of seeing justice done because of the bitter...
...Parade, a bomb exploded on Market Street, killed ten people, wounded 40 others. Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, labor agitators, were convicted of the crime, went to jail for life. Their trials were later shown to have been honeycombed with perjured evidence against them. Judge & jury recommended their pardon. The case became interwoven with State politics. Governor after California Governor was implored by large sections of organized Labor, the Press and the Pulpit to set justice to rights by releasing Mooney & Billings. Though 15 years of prison life have greyed them to pathetic, broken figureheads, their Cause looms...
...pardon, sir, but it's no go," said the spokesman. "If you get one anchor up, we'll drop the other...