Word: cowley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nelson, who had been hunted in the Chicago area for some six weeks, was heading for a house near suburban Barrington, Ill. Two by two. in fast new Hudsons. agents of the Department's Chicago division rolled out for the chase. Together went pleasant, round-faced Inspector Samuel P. Cowley, 35, and clean-cut Herman E. Hollis, 28. Both were graduates of Washington law schools, both participants in the catching & killing of Dillinger. Cowley had also been in at the death of Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd (TIME, Oct. 29). Hollis had been at Spider Lake when Nelson killed Agent Baum...
Near Barrington about mid-afternoon Agents Cowley and Hollis spotted Illinois license No. 639-578 on a Ford containing two men and a blonde woman. Recognizing that as Nelson's number they gave hot chase. The proprietress of a filling station saw the two automobiles come roaring down the highway at 70-odd m. p. h., each one spitting bullets. Near the filling station, the agents pulled abreast of the fleeing outlaws. Tires shrieked as the Ford swerved into a side road. The Federal car screeched and skidded about 100 ft. down the highway before Agent Hollis could bring...
...With part of his skull shot away, Agent Hollis died at the Emergency Hospital in Harrington.* In a hospital at Elgin, Agent Cowley refused an operation until he could assure his famed chief, Melvin Purvis, that his opponent had indeed been "Baby Face" Nelson. Few hours later Cowley, too, died...
...Eliot and the Jesuits" alone of the essays in this number bears some slight trace of that preciousness so carefully cultivated in certain Harvard circles of the 1920's. He makes the neat point that Mr. Eliot's flight to the Church has resemblances with Mr. Malcolm Cowley's flight to Communism; but on the whole his epigrams fail to hang together...
Died. Sir Ernest Burford Horlick, 54, Lord of the Manor of Cowley, chairman of Horlick's Malted Milk Co., Ltd. of London, Wartime R. F. C. captain; after brief illness; in Paris...