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Word: bowleses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Detroiters went to the polls and by a plurality of 30.956 voted to recall big, bluff Charles Bowles, their mayor. The returns were broadcast exultantly to the electorate from station WMBC in the LaSalle hotel by Announcer Gerald E. ("Jerry'') Buckley. About 1 a. m. he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Death in Detroit | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

When Detroit's successful mayorality candidate Charles Bowles entered office he delighted businessmen by drafting Businessman Harold H. Emmons to be police commissioner. But some businessmen withdrew their support from the Mayor because, among his appointees was John Gillespie, onetime police commissioner, old-line politician, to be Commissioner of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Turmoil in Detroit | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

Last week, another large citizens' deputation subscribed $30,000 to distribute petitions to recall Mayor Bowles. Detroit law provides that a poll on the Mayor's dismissal may be taken if signatures are obtained from 25% of the number of people voting in the last gubernatorial election, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Turmoil in Detroit | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

The clothes and magazines gathered will be distributed first to needy students in the University; then the remainder will be given to welfare organizations in Cambridge. Following is the list of men who will take care of the collections: ANDOVER HALL Rooms 1-10--Leslie Frazer 1 Rooms 11-17...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLOTHING COLLECTORS APPOINTED BY P. B. H. | 4/15/1930 | See Source »

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