Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forged license had been made out to a Manhattan exporter named Harry Levey. He said he had bought it from another exporter, John Quinn...
Last week Quinn was summoned to Washington. Had he forged the department's approval? Quinn disclaimed any responsibility. Traffic in "approved" duplicate licenses, he said, "is a big business in New York; it's done every day." He had bought such licenses both for his own shipments, and for resale. He named half a dozen people who had sold or offered to sell licenses...
Playwright Lavery-hoping to rouse men's minds by tickling their ribs-has written a comedy about a roughneck (Hollywood's Anthony Quinn, making his first Broadway bow) who hijacks his way into Congress. To attract attention there, he introduces a bill calling for World Government. Soon he really believes in the bill, and is using gangster tactics to get it passed. That is the end of him as a Congressman, but the beginning...
While the Athens Congressman (Anthony Quinn) is acting the part of his namesake, he is also pulling for a United States of the World, an idea that appears to be the prime mover of the play, as well as the Greatest Idea Ever to Hit Congress. Potentially capable of turning the story into a provocative speculation on the shortcomings of UN, the idea falls prey to the same double-breasted double talk that plagues the Secretes business. Ideas give way to fists as the actors apparently fire of aiming empty words at empty seas and resort to more satisfying exertions...
...such a highly placed committee. If written into law, the committee's proposal would certainly live up to President Truman's boast that it represents "an American charter of human freedom in our time." The "if," however, is a big one. Several states, notably New York with its Ives-Quinn Fair Employment Practices Act, have already taken steps along the lines the committee indicates. And the Republican Party stands pledged to bring anti-lynching and anti-poll tax legislation before the current Congress...