Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's proposed transformation, of Washington from one of the wetter to quite the driest of cities in the land: last week John F. J. Herbert. Prohibition Administrator at Baltimore, whose territory included the District of Columbia, was transferred to Helena, Mont. His assistant, John Joseph Quinn, was suspended pending investigation of charges against him. To Baltimore was shifted Administrator Thomas Elijah Stone, top-notcher, credited with abating Detroit's huge liquor influx from Canada...
...Reputedly the highest previous price paid for a living author's manuscript was $5,300, for Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly at the Quinn Sale in New York...
...Quinn has passed. In the decade or so of his incumbency he has became almost a tradition. But traditions have a ruthless way of disappearing amid the torch lights of the innovator, and the ex-Mayor, who tried so hard to hitch Harvard to his band-wagon, will be present only on the tire covers of a few autos until they also reach the discarded stage. Thus, as Cambridge becomes industrialized, does good fellowship give way to efficiency...
...time of going to press last evening the CRIMSON had received the following election returns--Richard M. Russell '14 was elected mayor of Cambridge by 4,000 votes over the present mayor. Edward W. Quinn Jimmy Walker was re-elected mayor of New York by a lead of over 300,000 votes. Jim Curley was leading his nearest rival for the office of mayor of Boston by 18,000 votes...
DONT SCOLD STOP WILL EXPLAIN STOP CURLEY WILL WIN IN BOSTON AND QUINN IN CAMBRIDGE STOP WALKER WILL CARRY NEW YORK