Word: bowleses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Detroit, a young, short, slender, redhaired Irishman prepared last week to take over the Mayor's office. He had won the extraordinary election required by the recall of Mayor Charles Bowles (TIME, Aug. 4). The redhaired Irishman was a "dark horse" who entered the race backed by the...
It was the eleventh murder in Detroit in 19 days. The killings had stood in the press beside excoriations of Mayor Bowles charging him with tolerance of. if not collusion with, gamblers & gangsters. After the tenth murder he had said that perhaps the best way to deal with gangsters was...
Prime question of the week was: "Who could have wanted to kill Buckley?" Such was his popularity among hundreds of Detroiters for whom he obtained jobs during last winter's depression, and among an increasing radio audience, that his home was deluged with flowers, more than 100,000 viewed...
Police Commissioner Wilcox, a recent Bowles appointee, retorted that Announcer Buckley was a known extortionist and racketeer, killed by his kind. Investigation showed that the announcer kept three hotel apartments besides his home with his wife, and that his secretary had revealed Buckley's long fear of being '...
Charles Bowles, who remains Detroit's Mayor at least until the special election in September, called the killing "a terrible thing," braced himself for a campaign of vindication. He abolished his central vice squad in the police department, started a round of speakeasy raids. Meantime his Commissioner of Public...