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...Campaigning against graft in the city government, Editor Older of the Bulletin in 1906 piled up enough evidence to send Grafter Abraham Ruef to jail. Then, believing him scapegoat of a corrupt system, he fought long to get Ruef freed. Older in 1916 started a vehement crusade for Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, during which he accused District Attorney Charles M. Fickert of "framing" the pair and was assaulted by Fickert in a hotel lobby. Refused support by his own paper, Older went to Hearst's Call, remained when the two were merged in 1929. Latter-day Older...
...into taking his case through the courts, Mayne gets his own come-uppance when his victim's husband knocks him down, inadvertently killing him. Jail for manslaughter separates George and Tarn for a period, but California Justice appears more kind to Mrs. Norris' hero than to Tom Mooney...
...whose face is as plump as her voice is sharp. Anything Goes further boasts the services of debonair William Gaxton and wistful Victor Moore, respectively President Wintergreen and Vice President Throttlebottom of Of Thee I Sing. Funny as Victor Moore was as Throttlebottom, he is funnier still as "Moonface" Mooney, Public Enemy No. 13. Disguised as a parson, he is forced to flee the country on an ocean liner, soon attaches himself to Billy Crocker (Gaxton), a playboy following a long-lost sweetheart, and Reno Sweeney (Merman), an evangelist turned night club operator...
...quite possible that a liberal justice would vote to give California Convict Tom Mooney a hearing (as the Supreme Court did last fortnight) or to uphold a state mortgage moratorium law and then balk at the idea of pensioning all aged railroad employes, fixing the price of ice in San Antonio or the price of a hair cut in Jersey City or enforcing collective bargaining in a steel plant-all on the legal theory that these things help to regulate and maintain the free flow of interstate commerce...
...tribunal did not assume jurisdiction on the writ application. It merely authorized attorneys to file necessary legal papers. Mooney's motion was the preliminary step in appealing from a decision by a lower court...