Word: quigg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a visit by Cowboy Cinemactor Roy Rogers, during which some 4,000 swarming youngsters almost swallowed him up before police reinforcements arrived, Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton used his weekly radio chat to apologize for City Hall's unpreparedness. Explained the mayor: "[The police] had no advance knowledge of the effect this particular movie star produces on children...
Denver citizens were to vote on a new city charter. Almost everybody, apparently, was for it: the Post, the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News (Denver's only other daily), young Mayor Quigg Newton, the Chamber of Commerce, the unions. The charter's main opponents: 61year-old Columnist Gustin, the city auditor and a group of political "outs...
...Lawyer Quigg, the first native son in Denver's line of 32 mayors, was the antithesis of his predecessor. The son of a wealthy Denver Republican, he played football at Phillips Academy at Andover, learned law at Yale, served an exploratory year as a legal secretary with SEC. During the war he flew a Washington desk as a commander in the Naval Air Transport Service, came back to Denver with an itch to give the city a liberal, non-partisan mayoralty administration...
...energetic publisher of the Denver Post, backed him editorially. So, to Denver's surprise, did the Post's archenemy, the Rocky Mountain News. Most of the city's railway brotherhoods were for him. So were most of its C.I.O. unions, 300 of 412 Republican precinct committeewomen. Quigg Newton's campaign was a model of politeness. Instead of berating Old Ben (Denver wasn't exactly mad at him, it was just tired of him) Newton simply called for change...
Said a Denver vegetable-stand proprietor: "We did some smart voting for once. We voted in that nice young Newton-then we fixed it so Young Quigg can't get to be Old Quigg, like Old Ben done...