Word: quigg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after two decades, Denver threw Old Ben and his creaky machine out of office and replaced him with dark-haired, baby-faced Attorney J. (for James) Quigg Newton...
...lineups: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Forte, 2b 2b, McNeil Caulfield, cf ss, Callagy Fitz, lb 3b, Durham Coulson, lf c, Young Barron, rf cf, Wienschem Mariaschin, ss lf, Quigg Hamlen, c rf, Hyman Coppinger, 3b lb, Hyman Wallace, p p, Doole or Amirault
...Under the city's home-rule charter, he has become one of the most powerful municipal dictators in the U.S. But last week there were signs that Democrat Stapleton might be unhorsed. For the first time in a decade he had a tough opponent: wealthy, Yale-trained Republican Quigg Newton, a onetime legal secretary to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who had the backing of a growing reform movement...
Sitting in his huge, circular office in Denver's gleaming, modified-Roman city hall last week, he listened to the assurances of his machine men that he could win again in a trot. But the mayor seemed not so sure; aggressive Quigg Newton seemed to mean business...
...United Press' earnest, efficient Horace Quigg, who entered Manila with MacArthur, had just bedded for the night on the concrete floor of Manila's Bilibid Prison. Then he learned that some U.S. prisoners, newly freed, were on the other side of the wall. He felt his way down blacked-out corridors. "Suddenly I sensed rather than felt or saw someone beside me," he wrote. "I stuck out my hand, even as did Stanley in darkest Africa. . . 'I'm Quigg, United Press,' I said. The Dr. Livingstone of Bilibid Prison grasped my hand fervently. 'Weissblatt...