Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courses would meet in Boston and Cambridge; that, too, looked like the real McCoy. Perhaps the only thing unusual about the whole affair was the name of the instructor, appearing in bold type at the head of the letters. Only these debbies lucky enough to be slightly steeped in some sort of Harvard tradition had heard...
...luxurious penthouse atop the clubhouse. By Mr. O'Hara's side sat his two lawyers and outside the door stood some 20 of Pawtucket's police, stout liegemen of Walter O'Hara's friend and political ally, Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Beyond them stood a delegation of State police, sent by Rhode Island's Democratic Governor Robert E. Quinn to arrest Walter O'Hara on charges of criminal libel and blasphemy For two hours the rival police squadrons glared at each other in stubborn deadlock. Then...
...meantime Promoter O'Hara was getting in deeper with Mayor McCoy and Pawtucket's anti-Quinn Democratic faction. In his weekly Pawtucket Star, O'Hara backed Mayor McCoy against Quinn, then Lieutenant Governor, for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. After changing the Star into a daily last spring, the pair moved into Providence, stronghold of the Republican Metcalf Brothers' Journal and Bulletin, by merging the Star with the feeble old News-Tribune. The resulting Star-Tribune proceeded to pepper the Metcalfs and the Quinn political machine on their own grounds...
...this point that Governor Quinn, declaring that he would rid Rhode Island of a "vicious influence." swore out the dramatically-served warrant for Mr. O'Hara's arrest. Released on $5,000 bail supplied by Mayor McCoy, he was immediately rearrested on another warrant sworn out by Adman William E. Beehan whom he had called in the Star-Tribune a briber, released on similar bail from the same source. Next day he was back at his office for the running of the $25,000 Narragansett Special, which he had threatened to open to the public free, with...
Married, Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), 63, oldtime prizefighter, lately a Ford Motor Company policeman, for the ninth time, to Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley, 44; in Rushville...