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Howard Hughes' newest involves police captain McQuigg (Robert Mitchum) trying to get criminal Scanlon (Robert Ryan) behind bars with the old gimmick--no evidence...

Author: By Margaret E. Fechheimer, | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Died. Brig. Gen. John Rea McQuigg, 62, Cleveland banker-lawyer, onetime Commander of the American Legion (1925); after a year's illness; in Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Friends are here," Mme. Paderewski told him one afternoon last week, straightened his pillows, helped him into a faded, favorite bathrobe, and opened the door for a delegation of the American Legion, headed by National Commander John R. McQuigg. They had come to pin on him a Distinguished Service Medal suspended by a ribbon from a gold crossbar containing 74 diamonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tribute | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...McQuigg. New York, Illinois and Ohio contended for the favor of choosing the next National Commander of the Legion to succeed James A. Drain. But there was no great spirit in the campaigning, for the Mitchell issue overtopped all others. On the last day of the Convention the struggle was decided in a single ballot. John R. McQuigg of East Cleveland, Ohio, 59, whitehaired, banker and lawyer, former engineer in the A. E. F. (with rank of Brigadier General) was elected. His vote was more than twice that of his competitors. His attitude on the Mitchell question may be gathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN LEGION: Big Meeting | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

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