Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Star-Tribune on the high bid of $181,000 cash, plus satisfaction of a $121,875 mortgage held by one-time owner U. S. Senator Peter G. Gerry. Completely out of the transaction was Walter Edmund O'Hara, who ran the Star-Tribune into bankruptcy after Governor Robert Quinn, his political nemesis, had clamped shut Mr. O'Hara's profitable Narragansett Park race track...
...smallest U. S. State is not anything like big enough for Walter Edmund O'Hara and Governor Robert Quinn. Both men are Democrats and Irish, but for a year or more these bitter factional opponents have battled each other-Governor Quinn through his allied Providence Bulletin and Journal, Mr. O'Hara through his own Providence Star-Tribune...
...track, padlocked, with big local advertisers now shunning the Star-Tribune as though it were a leper colony, Mr. O'Hara was now thoroughly pacified. He wrote a bitter valedictory in the last edition of the Star-Tribune before he put it in temporary receivership, charging that Governor Quinn and the Bulletin and Journal "joined in the conviction that an aggressive, progressive and exposing newspaper would be unhealthy for the prevailing system in Rhode Island." As final ignominy, Democratic Judge Jeremiah O'Connell stopped the Star-Tribune press, suppressed Mr. O'Hara's farewell...
...legal aspects of the Narragansett Park mix-up. These articles have been expanded considerably, packed between a clarifying introduction and a voluminous set of appendices, and salted down with a fistfulls of apt quotations. As an Added Feature there is a photostat of the famous "Star Tribune" asserting Governor Quinn to be in an insane asylum and (for the kiddies) lots of pictures of soldiers and horses...
Really the most valuable and most interesting parts of the phamphlet are the round-by-round stories of the legal battle. The analysis of Quinn's attempts to shut up the Race Track will be instructive to young lawyers how not to conduct a suit. Serious readers will be fascinated by the exhaustive, well-documented, and clear discussions of the legal posers involved in the Governor's proclamation of martial law and of the nature and power of the State Racing Commission, a model for all quasi-judicial executive bodies whose mush-room growth in the government worries many lawyers...