How Bill Bowe, Sr. Met and Married Mary Gwinn
How Bill Bowe, Sr. Met Mary Gwinn Editor's Note: In this part of Tony Bowe's conversation, he asks Bill Bowe how his parents met. In answering Bill talks about the relationship between his mother, Mary Gwinn Bowe, [...]
Bill Bowe, Sr. Is Injured in France in World War II
Bill Bowe, Sr. Is Injured in France in World War I Editor's Note: Bill Bowe's father had joined the Illinois National Guard when he graduated in 1915 from Loyola University Law School in Chicago. When President Woodrow Wilson [...]
Bill Bowe, Jr. Talks about His Father, William John Bowe, Sr.
Bill Bowe, Jr. Talks about His Father, William John Bowe, Sr. Editor's Note: In this conversation, Bill Bowe, Jr. discusses his father's career, together with aspects of his early and later life.
The Cliff Dwellers 116th Annual Meeting
The Cliff Dwellers 116th Annual Members Meeting Editor's Note: Another January after 1907 rolled around and after 116 First Mondays after the Twelfth Night, the Annual Meeting of Members of The Cliff Dwellers took place in 2023 for [...]
A Farewell to Deirdre McCloskey
A Farewell to Deirdre McCloskey Editor's Note: As the New Year rolled in, Deirdre McCloskey, 20 years a Cliff Dweller, prepared to move to Washington, D.C. to join the staff of the Cato Institute. Her fellow members were [...]
Mary Gwinn Bowe and The 1960 Kennedy Presidential Campaign
Editor's Note: In 1960, John F. Kennedy was running for President. After a September campaign event in our apartment living room with Ethel and Joan Kennedy, the wives of his JFK's brothers Robert and Edward Kennedy, my mother joins the soon-to-be-elected President at an event in his Chicago campaign office. Also attending are then Mayor Richard J. Daley, and later Mayor Jane Byrne.
Legal Training
Legal Training University of Chicago Law School I had only been at Ross, Hardies 11 months before I left for the Army. When I left the Army, I was convinced I’d forgotten whatever it was I [...]
United Press International – Before the Deluge
On the Way to UPI After I left Bradford in 1983, I briefly settled back into the practice of law. Joining several of my former Roan & Grossman partners as Of Counsel, I worked in a LaSalle Street [...]
