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...Quentin (Calif.) penitentiary, where he had been seven years for killing a woman in a drunken brawl, walked paunchy Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), 59, oldtime middleweight prizefighter noted for his craftiness and cruelty in the ring. By plane from San Francisco he flew to Dearborn, Mich, where awaited him a job in Ford Motor Co.. arranged by Harry Bennett, chief of Ford company police, whom he had taught boxing in the Navy. His job was described as "physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting...
...printed in Russian: "Workers of the World, Unite." Only one delegate from Kentucky was there, 14 others having "disappeared" in Pineville. The Washington, D. C., delegation was temporarily held in jail in Bedford, Pa. Thomas Mooney, an honorary member of the managing committee, was in jail in San Quentin, Calif. Keynoter Earl Browden of New York announced that the war-cry of the Communists' presidential campaign would be: "Jobs, Bread and Peace." Said...
...Quentin, Prisoner Mooney left his potato-peeling to hear the decision in the warden's office. Sixteen years behind its grey walls have warped his perspective on the world at large and rendered him ''stir daffy."* Hoping for nothing from Governor Rolph, Mooney declared: "This makes me the outstanding figure in the world's labor movement and a symbol of the struggle of Labor for its rights." In San Francisco his defense committee exclaimed that he "had no chance whatever of receiving a fair and impartial hearing from representatives of as unprincipled a bunch of pirates...
...Pausing from his potato-peeling in San Quentin prison, Thomas Mooney said that he was convinced that Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of California would not grant him the pardon for which Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York went 3,000 mi. to beg last month. "Not a chance," said Prisoner Mooney, on the eve of his sixteenth Christmas behind bars since he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade. "Powers of business and politics will dictate Governor Rolph's decision. ... It looks as though I would...
...Happy Days Are Here Again."Noisy crowds shouted cheerful impertinences. Mrs. Mary Mooney, 80, mother of Prisoner Mooney who was convicted along with Warren K. Billings of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day Parade, clasped the dapper Mayor in her arms. He visited her son at San Quentin, inspected the scene of the bombing, developed a nasty cold...