Word: quine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houston, the Episcopal Diocese of Texas set aside $10,000 to help chaplains who return to that diocese when the war ends. The eleven Texas parsons now serving had to resign their parishes because replacements would not accept parishes on a "duration" basis. Said Bishop Clinton Simon Quin: "We are going to take care of every returning rector. We will get them a job within the Diocese. Maybe it will be a church with but 15 or 20 members, where pay is small. The fund set aside will be used to make up the difference in that...
Hardworking, pugnacious Maury Maverick last week got bulldogged in San Antonio's political arena. Up for re-election as mayor, Maverick was caught 1,183 votes short in the mayoralty runoff. The winner: tall, grey-haired, machine-tooled Charles Quin (TIME, May 26), the man Maverick had defeated two years...
Toward the end of the campaign Maverick was a sick man. Between rallies he stayed in a hospital, sent out copies of Henley's Invictus to assure his friends that his head was "bloody, but unbowed." But he knew he was cornered. Fortnight ago Quin had led him in the Democratic election by 1,295 votes...
...been. When the votes were counted Quin, very pleased, had 17,437, Maverick got 16,142. Some 2,000 votes for four minor candidates made a runoff necessary. Ex-Mayor Quin got more than Maverick of both the Negro and the Mexican vote. San Antonio's businessmen were for Maverick, but Maverick's New Dealism kept them from being ardent...
Shocked into action, Maverickos last week went to work again. With shouts of Arriba Maury Maverick! they rallied San Antonio's Mexicans for the runoff next week. And Maverick, fighting for his political life, appealed to his middle-class white supporters with attacks on Quin's Negro supporters, tore into Bellinger as "that black baboon" who would be more powerful than San Antonio's whites if Quin...