Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manager of the civilian Credit Union at the Navy's big Quonset Point Air Station near Providence, R.I., Gerald Lynch had reason to feel a little nervous when payday came around. Part of his job was cashing paychecks for Quonset's 4,000 civilian employees, and a year ago burglars had stolen $60,000 from the union's safe. Payday arrived last week, and Manager Lynch called in Thomas Smith, a burly civilian guard. Together, they picked up $100,000 in small bills and change from the Navy paymaster and drove back to the Credit Union...
...green 1950 Oldsmobile slammed to a stop beside Lynch's car. Two men with Halloween masks over their faces hopped out, jabbed snub-nosed revolvers at them and barked: "Give us the money. We're not kidding." Lynch and Smith promptly handed over their guns and the moneybags. "What are you going to do when a man pokes a gun in your ribs," asked Smith later...
...Council voted 6 to 3 against John D. Lynch's proposal for suspension of the rules on Atkinson in the finance committee. The proposal would have brought the measure of his re-election out of the finance committee, and into the Council...
...other three C.C.A. members, Hyman Pill, Chester A. Higley, and W. Donnison Swan '19, wish to see Atkinson reappointed. One independent Councillor, John W. Lynch, also has supported him publically...
Later, Councillor John D. Lynch, a non-C.C.A. man but pro-Atkinson, introduced a new motion to proceed to the election. C.C.A. Mayor Joseph A. De-Ouglielmo declared the new motion was out of order, however, and when Lynch appealed his decision, DeGuglielmo denied the appeal because it was not seconded...