Word: runoff
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Texans shook their heads admiringly over the primary, the most bitterly fought in a decade, thought surely it would require a run-off between the two high men. Best bet for the runoff: O'Daniel v. Allred, with most of the Moody votes then going to Allred...
Hardworking, pugnacious Maury Maverick last week got bulldogged in San Antonio's political arena. Up for re-election as mayor, Maverick was caught 1,183 votes short in the mayoralty runoff. The winner: tall, grey-haired, machine-tooled Charles Quin (TIME, May 26), the man Maverick had defeated two years...
...runoff over, Maverick's head for the first time seemed bowed. Said he, out of the $150,000 he had when he entered politics, only $210.20, his house and 20,000 books were left. He plans to rusticate in Mexico, not talk any English for 90 days. But few believed that Maury Maverick's public career was over...
...been. When the votes were counted Quin, very pleased, had 17,437, Maverick got 16,142. Some 2,000 votes for four minor candidates made a runoff necessary. Ex-Mayor Quin got more than Maverick of both the Negro and the Mexican vote. San Antonio's businessmen were for Maverick, but Maverick's New Dealism kept them from being ardent...
Shocked into action, Maverickos last week went to work again. With shouts of Arriba Maury Maverick! they rallied San Antonio's Mexicans for the runoff next week. And Maverick, fighting for his political life, appealed to his middle-class white supporters with attacks on Quin's Negro supporters, tore into Bellinger as "that black baboon" who would be more powerful than San Antonio's whites if Quin...