Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight the arraignment in Detroit of twelve "Wolverine Republican Club" members for the murder of a young Catholic WPA worker (TIME, June i) gave the U. S. its first word of a nebulous, black-cloaked, Klan-like organization called the Black Legion. Following a slim lead the Press and police last week splattered over U. S. newspapers an incredible blood-&-thunder story which had liberals sincerely worried, psychologists intensely interested, the average citizen bewildered...
...Another Detroit clue pointed to Bellaire, Ohio's $25-a-month Health Commissioner, squint-eyed Dr. William Jacob ("Dr. Billy'') Shepard as commander-in-chief. To citizens there "Dr. Billy" was a "harmless old coot." incurably hipped on the preservation of Southern chivalry. Eleven years ago he appeared at a Ku Klux Klan meeting dressed in black, attended by "Black Guards," stirred up Klan resentment. He withdrew with his Black Guards, who apparently burgeoned, without his assistance, into the Legion. Refusing to define his position, "Dr. Billy" said: "You have to have mystery in a fraternal thing...
...found its odor distinctly unpleasant. Outraged Pontiac. Mich, citizens, hearing that many of their city officials were connected with Legion activities, began an inquiry of their own. The appearance of Wayne County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea's name on a Legion membership blank caused a fine furor in Detroit. To Washington went frantic wires from the Midwest begging the G-Men to step in. Introduced in the U. S. House and Senate was a joint resolution demanding a Congressional investigation...
...myself, 'Something is going to be happening here.' I saw nothing more of any policemen until there was a shot fired and as soon as that shot was fired I dropped behind the wooden part of the counter. I was in a holdup one time in Detroit when a man was cut in half with a tommy-gun and at that time the police told me the only thing to do at a time like that is drop to the floor and stay there...
...oratory after work to tinker with alloys, later took him into the firm of Mariner & Hoskins. That is where Chromel was born. Hoskins Co. was incorporated in 1908, marketing an electric furnace developed during the Chromel experimentations. Next year the company was moved from Chicago to Detroit. Hoskins dropped out in 1910, and Marsh was faced with the strenuous job of marketing a product for which there was yet little need. When General Electric began making the alloy for itself, Mr. Marsh pressed a long-lived patent infringement suit, finally in 1915 compelled that firm to buy a part interest...