Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ineligible to run the Braves, Turfman Adams forthwith got hardy Bob Quinn, onetime owner of the rival Boston Red Sox, to take charge of the club (renamed the Bees) until a suitable buyer could be found. But customers for a big-league ball club do not grow on trees...
...outfield is fairly strong, with Paul Quinn in left, "Fitz" Fitzgibbons in center, and hockey captain A1 Reeves in right. Quinn is not only a steady fielder and a .348 hitter, but a fair catcher and pitcher as well, and may possibly see service at both ends of the battery before the season winds...
Died. Walter Edmund O'Hara, fiery, gambling Rhode Island Irishman, onetime managing director of the famed Narragansett Racing Association, who took Governor Robert E. ("Fighting Bob") Quinn's election in 1936 as a personal tribute, later brawled historically with him, bankrupting his Providence newspaper, losing his race track, running unsuccessfully for Governor in 1938; when his Packard piled head on into another car near the Taunton, Mass. dog-racing track...
...Quinn returned to Manhattan to sell the plan to the industry. There he ran into three snags: 1) the jealousy of rival trust men; 2) their lack of ready cash, which might force them to sell their own securities in the thinnest market in years; 3) their fear of being accused of taking advantage of the British, buying them out under duress...
...size of the British holdings, the amount of pool capital discussed last week was chicken feed: $25,000,000 to $75,000,000. Such a sum would have to be revolved several times (as it easily could be) to make a dent on Britain's need. This week, Quinn & friends were back in Wall Street, still discussing. Meanwhile the British were discussing too. Faced with Morgenthau's ultimatum, they were still reluctant to put their properties on this or any other counter...