Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief Justice William Howard Taft, according to custom, took no part in a case before the U. S. Supreme Court, last week, in which his niece-in-law, Elizabeth C. Taft of Detroit, lost an appeal to escape a $2,040 tax on her 1923 income...
...Petersburg, Fla., one Mrs. S. C. George of Detroit, bathing in the ocean, found herself beyond her depth, cried for help. On shore, Surf Fisherman S. J. Oakes comprehending the situation at once, cast his line at Mrs. George, hooked her in the finger, reeled...
...Bugs" Moran, the proprietor of the garage, was not among the dead. He was spending St. Valentine's Day in Detroit. Moran inherited the North Side mob from "Schemer" Drucci, who inherited it from "Hymie" Weiss, who inherited it from the late great Dion O'Bannion. The perforated bodies were those of Moran's brother-in-law and co-leader, James Clark; No. 1 Gunman Peter Gusenberg, Con-Man John Snyder, Gorilla Al Weinshank, John May, the man in overalls, and Reinhart Schwimmer. Frank Gusenberg, Pete's "Kid" brother, carrying 20 bullets, lived for three hours...
...only one motive-jungle justice. Chief Gangster Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's West Side mob was under suspicion. Tony Lombardo, Capone's good friend, wilted last summer under a spray of bullets at Madison and Dearborn Streets (TIME, Sept. 17). And a shipment of Canadian whiskey from Detroit's "Purple Gang" to Capone was hijacked last fortnight, presumably by Moran...
...Harvard team which is composed of C. D. G. Breckinridge '31, G. T. Francis Jr. ocC., S. B. Myers '29, Ogden Phipps '31, and B. H. Whitbeck '29, plays its first match against the Detroit team tomorrow morning...