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Question-of-the-hour put by Roosevelt loyalists to their fellow Democrats is: "Do you oppose a third term for the President? When it reached resilient Maury Maverick-the super-New-Dealer who, defeated for re-election to the House, snapped back last month as mayor of San Antonio-the question bounced. "I think," said Maury Maverick, "that I'm against a fourth term, and I know I'm against a fifth...
Acquaintances suspect that Mayor-elect Maverick will take off from his new stance in a 1940 leap toward the U. S. Senate...
...Military aviation is one of San Antonio's biggest industries. Randolph Field, "West Point of the Air," is there. Maury Maverick was for consolidating the Army & Navy's air forces into a third major arm of national defense...
Last week Maury Maverick's Mexicans mostly voted for him, the Negroes voted for Boss Quin, whites sprinkled their votes fairly evenly. In the final roundup, Maury Maverick was found to have succeeded his grandfather by 18,445 votes to 15,441 for Quin, 11,172 for Jeffers. Grandson Maury promptly took a pre-oath of office administered by his father, Albert Maverick, 86, standing in front of Grandfather Samuel's portrait (see cut). In with Maverick to replace the Quin machine go three out of four city commissioners, including bulky Louis Lipscomb, Princeton 1923 footballer, as fire...
Recovering from his labors with coffee & aspirin, Maury Maverick croaked: "I'm going to be a stuffed shirt. I got beat for Congress for not being...