Word: backlash
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...weeks after the murder the police dawdled over clues, questioned suspects, released them. Mayor James John Walker, fretted by his police department's impotence, fearing a political backlash, released Joseph A. Warren as Police Commissioner and installed Grover Aloysius Whalen, dapper manager of the John Wanamaker department store...