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...sang the "Internationale," cheered the unfolding of a big banner on which was 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...
...seven years of office, Senator Hastings did not reveal. But he did say that he considered himself responsible for a $2,008.34 debt, still unpaid, to Pullman Co. for the chartered car in which he and his dapper friend dashed out to get in on California's Mooney Case last winter...
...Idle Hour Farm each autumn. Bland, dignified and equipped with a genuine Kentucky accent to match his genuine Kentucky colonelcy, Col. Bradley shows a wary reticence when talking to reporters. He has one superstition: all his horses have names begining with "B." Burgoo King was named for Jim Mooney, a Lexington grocer whose "burgoo"-a savory meat stew cooked for two days and sometimes seasoned with corn whiskey-is reputed Kentucky's best...
...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...
...Governors Stephens, Richardson and Young refused to pardon Mooney. Four times the California Supreme Court reviewed the Mooney case which was once carried to the U. S. Supreme Court. President Wilson's personal intervention secured a commutation of Mooney's death sentence to life imprisonment. Three Federal investigations of the Mooney case were made, the last being by a subcommittee of the defunct Wickersham Commission...