Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final decision, however, was left up to the faculty, which was called to a meeting by President Klapper two days later. One of the A.Y.D.'s most virulent critics, City Councilman Hugh Quinn, attempted to gain entrance to this session...
When Klapper informed Quinn that faculty meetings were closed to outsiders, the Councilman said, "If I am barred, it is only for one reason--they are hiding something." The president then asked the faculty if Quinn could be allowed in; the vote was unanimously in the negative...
...star-chamber session!" Quinn exclaimed, adding, "that's not the American way. Dr. Klapper. You must remember Queens College is a public institution, supported by taxpayers' money, and what the faculty does is everybody's business...
Before he left, Quinn also remarked that "faculty meetings should be open to the press so that the newspapers may report accurately and fully what goes on here...
...third man considered for the job. Harry Truman had wanted North Carolina's Jonathan Daniels, whose father had been Woodrow Wilson's Navy Secretary. Daniels didn't want the job. Democratic National Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath had his own candidate -his friend, Judge Robert Quinn of Rhode Island. But Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson didn't want Quinn. In raising funds for Harry Truman's campaign, Johnson had got a good look at Frank Matthews and liked what...