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...year-old city machine in San Antonio, led by suave, grey Mayor Charles Kennon Quin, got tired of hearing Maury Maverick (who beat Quin for Congress in 1934) tell the country what a civic pesthole his city was. They put up a hard-hitting attorney named Paul Kilday, knocked Maury Maverick out of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Unbrcmded Bullfrog | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Antonio's Maverick, knocked out of Congress by Paul Kilday, is currently engaged in trying to wrest the city's mayoralty from Kil-day's friend, Charles K. Quin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Parade of the Left | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...resigning as Executive Director (No. 2 man) of the Social Security Board. Effective date: November 1. Almost simultaneously a special representative of the U. S. Attorney General, accompanied by two agents of the FBI, arrived in town to look into the primary in which Assistant District Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday beat New Dealer Maverick by less than 1,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Conservative Party | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Emma Tenayuca, dark-eyed little Red of San Antonio, Texas (TIME, Feb. 28), was nominated to run for Congress on the Communist ticket. Her opponent: Paul Kilday, who last month defeated the incumbent, rip-snorting Maury Maverick, for renomination. Nominee Kilday's brother is San Antonio's Chief of Police Owen P. Kilday, Emma Tenayuca's bitter enemy and twice her host when she was jailed for civil commotions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...well to the left of the President, got into A.F. of L.'s bad graces by espousing much liberal legislation approved by C.I.O. At home, he rashly antagonized Mayor Charles Kennon Quin's San Antonio machine and the potent Irish-Catholic vote. Last week Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday-an Irishman, Roman Catholic and Quin machinist-beat Maury Maverick by 546 votes in 49,312 votes cast. Said Maury Maverick: "Lincoln got beat four times. I guess I can take it once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Biscuits Passed | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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