Mooney Again Seeks Freedom After 22-Year Battle
Tom Mooney presses for clemency as the Supreme Court allows an original writ habeas corpus appeal and California politics shifts. The case ties to the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco. key witnesses recanted, jurists fault the conviction, and Mooney remains a polarizing labor figure seeking pardon or release.
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Tom Mooney
California
Frank F. Merriam
San Quentin Penitentiary
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
United States Supreme Court
Mooney
Supreme Court
Cuthbert Olson
Olson
Wilson
Steuart
Market
Ren K. Billings
W. D. Stephens
Warren K. Billings
Folsom State Prison
Oregon
Frank G. Oxman
Billings
John MacDonald
A. E. Shaw
United ‘Labor Movement
United Labor Movement
State Supreme Judiciary
San Quentin
State of
Western Newspaper Union
Pittsburgh C I O Convention To Climax Lewis Career
John L. Lewis faces a decisive Pittsburgh convention to consolidate a rival C I O organization against William Green’s A F of L. His rise reshaped labor, forming a vertical union model spanning autos, steel, glass, coal, and rubber.
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Pittsburgh
C.I
Lewis
John L. Lewis
Labor
A. F
John Lewis
William Green
Myrta Edith Bell
Iowa
Panama
Ill
Illinois State Capitol
Springfield
Samuel Gompers
United Mine Workers’ Union
Gompers
A. F. of L
New Deal
NRA
Atlantic City
Green
Federation
Houston
Free Hand Embroidery Patterns for Christmas Gifts and Home Décor
A school teacher promotes Book 2 on Gifts and Embroidery as a clear guide to original hand work. The note describes a border design for a bed jacket, suggests color schemes, and invites orders for Sewing Book 2 and Sewing for the Home Decorator. Address Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago.
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Spears
S. Desplaines St
Chicago
Dogay Applique Quilt Pattern 1846 Feature Pup
Quilt pattern 1846 offers a simple appliqued pup on a 9 inch block with contrasting binding or embroidery for a ribbon. Includes yardage chart cutting sewing finishing diagrams and pillow option with corner triangles. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York with name address and pattern number.
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Accu
Sewing Circle
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Care of a Book and Household Cleaning Tips
Advice on keeping books open without bending, safely cleaning broken glass with a damp cloth, maintaining chromium plated fittings by dusting or wiping with warm water, and m ending a wringer by taping a cracked rubber roller to halt spread of the crack.
Adversity Shared Would Ease Burdens Says Socrates
Plutarch quotes Socrates arguing that if all misfortunes were gathered into a single heap and each person took an equal share, most would be glad to reclaim their own burden. The idea frames resilience and fairness in facing trouble.
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Socrates
Plutarch
Phillips Milk of Magnesia Ad for Upset Stomach
An advertisement promotes Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a night time remedy for overindulgence symptoms. It advises two tablespoons in water before bed to ease nausea and restore comfort, followed by two more tablespoons with orange juice on waking. Thousands use it.
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Washington
National Emergency Council
Federal Communications Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Royal Order of
Commission
Roosevelt
Frank McNinch
Federal Power Commission
Federal Radio Commission
McNinch
Gary
The
Communications Commission
Pennsylvania Avenue
Magnesia
Eosta
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Dreyfus
McNamara Brothers
Los Angeles Times
American Federation of Labor
William Bruckart
National Press Bldg
Washington, D. C
Hampson Gary
MecNinch
Congress
Brackart
Washington Digest
Federal Communications Board
Phillips
Smith Brothers
Smith Bros
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