Word: quay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people. So he went into politics. A big fellow (6 ft. 4 in.) with big appetites, a cold heart, a shrewd head, he took to low life like a hippopotamus to water. When he was sent to the State Legislature he refused to truckle to Pennsylvania Boss Matthew Stanley Quay. Quay was impressed, made Penrose first his protege, then his partner. The Penrose path was broad and easy: he ambled into the U. S. Senate, into the counsels of Big Republican Business, into the Republican National Committee. But the one thing he most wanted, the mayoralty of Philadelphia, he never...
...Upon a quay profusely decked with flowers and after a salute of 19 guns, Mr. Davis was received by the French Governor of Cochin-China, M. Krautheimer. Reason: the exquisite old Governor General of all French Indo-China, His Excellency M. Pierre Pasquier, was in Paris, France, complaining about all the trouble Communists have been making in his bailiwicks (TIME, March 23). But native Reds made at the Davises not even faces...
Died. Matthew Quay Glaser, 54, cofounder (1920) with Publisher John S. Lewis, and onetime editor of the Masonic Review, organizer (1928) of the Curtis-for-President Club; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Though he never held public office, many a Washington politician knew well his booming voice, his ten-gallon hat. Major Maurice Campbell, onetime New York Prohibition administrator, stated last fall in the New York World that Curtis-booster Glaser had tried to get him to approve dubious whiskey permits, that the name of Vice President Curtis had been used (TIME, Sept. 22). Last month he was indicted...
...telling people he wants to be President. He must have an alter ego without egotism. This friend and spokesman should have political wisdom, like Mr. Smith's Judge Olvany and Mr. Wilson's Col. House. He should not be chosen carelessly, as Charles Curtis chose loud Matthew Quay Glaser (1928), nor should he have an excess of zeal as did Charles Dawes's Col. Ed Clifford. He should be a man of some distinction in his own right; often he will come to the aspirant of his own accord after the season is well advanced...
...story: a boatman of Wan Hsien becomes embroiled in an argument with an overbearing American who, during the altercation, falls off the quay, is drowned. Lying in the harbor is H. M. S. Europa, whose commander, immediately upon hearing of the accident, declares that a white man has been murdered and demands as restitution a fitting funeral, indemnity, the lives of two members of the boatman's guild. If he is not given satisfaction he will destroy the town. As he threatens, his great grey fortress slides forward and the hard mouths of his guns glower down upon the frightened...