Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acquaintances suspect that Mayor-elect Maverick will take off from his new stance in a 1940 leap toward the U. S. Senate...
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...
Recovering from his labors with coffee & aspirin, Maury Maverick croaked: "I'm going to be a stuffed shirt. I got beat for Congress for not being...