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Investigation (conducted by Deputy Assistant Attorney-General Francis J. Quillinan) demonstrated that the only connection between the (Keys-Hoyt) Curtiss-Wright Corp. and the Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Co. was in the misleading similarity of the names. Organizers of Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Co. had located (or invented) an airplane mechanic named Curtiss Wright, had christened their company after him. Assets, other than the name, were small. Stock-sale profits, however, should have been considerable. According to the Attorney-General's office, stock was optioned to Broker Cyrus Brin for 66^ a share, reoptioned to Broker H. D. Strahman...
...Manhattan. The local Institute for Public Service last week popped out with the report that Lawyer "Al Jr." had received 38 "professional opportunities," i.e., assigned law cases, from Tammany judges whose duty it was to appoint a defender, receiver or referee. The Smith son-in-law, Lawyer Francis J. Quillinan (lately married to the Warrior's daughter Catherine) was shown to have received 22 cases. The unfairness of the thing was that the number of cases assigned to other young lawyers was not mentioned for comparison. Nor was the ability of the young lawyers in question evaluated. The embarrassing...
Around Mrs. Smith in her box at Sam Houston Hall, at various times, sat: Mrs. John G. Glynn of Brooklyn, her comfortable-looking sister-in-law; Alfred E. Smith Jr., her slim, blond, curly, eldest son, a lawyer; Mrs. Catherine Smith Quillinan, her newly wed younger daughter; Arthur Smith, her middle son; Eddie Dowling, musical comedian; Tex Rickard, promoter. Mrs. Smith wore jade jewelry, waved a magenta fan. She said she did not feel the heat. When Chairman Robinson touched on religious tolerance, she looked moved. When Nominator Roosevelt told what a fine man her husband was she looked proud...
...know nothing of the plans. He perspired, showed his gold teeth, welcomed the guests, pointed out presents, laughed a lot and made jokes. Now and then he quietly put his arm around the slender, highstrung girl of 24, who, on the bright Saturday forenoon, became Mrs. Francis Joseph Quillinan. At the Albany Cathedral, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan performed the ceremony and transmitted a special blessing from Pius XI. Afterwards, a father's natural emotions on his daughter's wedding day were merged with the recurrent emotions of a Candidate. For besides the "boys" from Tammany Hall...
Married. Catherine A. Smith, 24, youngest daughter of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York; and Francis J. Quillinan, 25, Assistant Deputy Attorney General of New York; in Albany (see P9) Married. Corliss Lament, 26, second son of Thomas William Lament, Morgan partner; and Margaret Hayes Irish, daughter of Dr. Reuben H. Irish of Troy; in Troy...