Word: quins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the 30-year-old city machine in San Antonio, led by suave, grey Mayor Charles Kennon Quin, got tired of hearing Maury Maverick (who beat Quin for Congress in 1934) tell the country what a civic pesthole his city was. They put up a hard-hitting attorney named Paul Kilday, knocked Maury Maverick out of Congress...
Having learned the joys of being a conspicuous little frog in the national pond, Maury Maverick went home vowing to become the biggest frog in San Antonio. He formed a Fusion party (named after Fiorello LaGuardia's in New York) and went after Mayor Quin's machine. He centred his campaign on the squalid life of San Antonio's peon pecan shellers (the biggest voting bloc), got Eleanor Roosevelt down to look at them, accused Quin & Co. of a long list of offenses at least one of which -padding the city payroll with 555 voters -brought Quin...
Last week Maury Maverick's Mexicans mostly voted for him, the Negroes voted for Boss Quin, whites sprinkled their votes fairly evenly. In the final roundup, Maury Maverick was found to have succeeded his grandfather by 18,445 votes to 15,441 for Quin, 11,172 for Jeffers. Grandson Maury promptly took a pre-oath of office administered by his father, Albert Maverick, 86, standing in front of Grandfather Samuel's portrait (see cut). In with Maverick to replace the Quin machine go three out of four city commissioners, including bulky Louis Lipscomb, Princeton 1923 footballer, as fire...
...Antonio's Maverick, knocked out of Congress by Paul Kilday, is currently engaged in trying to wrest the city's mayoralty from Kil-day's friend, Charles K. Quin...
...shelters. Some 1,200,000 Frenchmen were with the colors, for in France also, recruits whose training period ended with August received no permission to return home. The whole of the vast steel and cement subterranean Maginot Line was more fully manned than ever before. General Edouard Réquin, in command of the Maginot Line, was abruptly promoted to the Superior War Council and several other high army commanders were given new key posts by Premier Daladier, who is his own drastic, jut-jawed Defense Minister...