Word: quin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That record looked good for a reform mayor, looked particularly good compared with that of his opponent, tall and grey-haired, dignified and distant, Charles Quin. San Antonio's mayor for six and a half years before Maverick defeated him in 1939. Maverickos had no trouble making his administrations look like epics of graft, incompetency, black reaction...
...while Maverickos were standing on the record, ex-Mayor Quin was buttonholing Mexicans in the Mexican district, Negroes in the Negro quarters. He had the support of Harvard-educated Negro Boss Valmo Bellinger. Quin's men made the most of San Antonio's worst riot, when Maverick insisted on permitting a Communist rally at San Antonio's auditorium, until townspeople and legionnaires broke it up in spite of the entire police and fire departments. Maverickos were sure the rally, although not forgotten, had been forgiven...