Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claiming that social security is becoming more and more necessary as the mass of unemployed increases and the number of people over 65 grows larger due to the longer span of life, three Debating Council representatives met a team from the Quinn Society over WNAC at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon in a no-decision debate...
Local elections in 1934 swept Democrats into control of the House, left Republicans with a two-vote margin in the Senate. On New Year's Day 1935 the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Robert Emmett Quinn, took matters in his own hands. As the Senate's presiding officer, he declared the election of two Republicans null & void, installed two Democrats in their places. To form a quorum he had State troopers force three other Republicans to remain in the chamber. Thus equipped with a Democratic majority, in 14½ minutes he whipped through a series of astounding reforms intended...
...shrewd Revolutionist Quinn this was just the beginning. Two months ago he demanded a constitutional convention to remove, once & for all, the "rotten borough" system. On the day the bill came up for vote, two Republicans were sick abed, three Democrats opposed it. Not to be caught napping a second time, Republicans dragged 69-year-old Senator Frank E. Payne from bed, stuck him on a couch in the Senate lounge, had a nurse prime his weak heart so that he could vote. Before Republicans or Democrats could charge each other with the old man's "murder," anxious relatives...
...historian whose Twenty Years of the Republic inspired Mark Sullivan's contemporary Our Times. Professor Peck's wit and flowering waistcoats had excited a full generation of students when, in the summer of 1910, he wrote a bundle of impetuous letters to an obscure stenographer named Esther Quinn. Esther Quinn sued him sensationally for breach of promise. He was deserted by his wife and friends, espelled from his clubs, finally dismissed from his Columbia professorship. At a faculty meeting Professor Spingarn got himself in scholastic hot water by defending his friend Peck. Independently rich, Spingarn refused to resign...
David Rockefeller '36 and Robert W. Edwards '38 are co-chairmen of the Committee to make the collections. Other men on the Committee include Shaun Kelly '36, Thomas H. Quinn '36, Raymond Dennott '36, George T. Skinner '37 and Malcolm E. Lewis...