Word: cavanagh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grand River Avenue to Gratiot Avenue six miles to the east, tongues of flame licked at the night sky, illuminating the angular skeletons of gutted homes, shops, supermarkets. Looters and arsonists danced in the eerie shadows, stripping a store clean, then setting it to the torch. Mourned Mayor Jerome Cavanagh: "It looks like Berlin...
Fully 40% of the city's Negro family heads own their own homes. No city has waged a more massive and comprehensive war on poverty. Under Mayor Jerry Cavanagh, an imaginative liberal with a knack for landing Government grants, the city has grabbed off $42 million in federal funds for its poverty programs, budgeted $30 million for them this year alone. Because many of the city's 520,000 Negroes (out of a population of 1,600,000) are unequipped to qualify for other than manual labor, some $10 million will go toward special training and placement programs...
...Haven, Conn., under the farsighted command of Mayor Richard C. Lee, has leaned heavily on the ideas of top urbanologists to organize community schools, revitalize a dying downtown area and yet preserve as much as possible of the old neighborhoods' historical character. Detroit, under Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, has created a "Human Resources Development" program, budgeted at $27 million this year, to provide adult and youth employment centers, medical clinics, neighborhood youth corps, and to aid small-business development in poor areas...
...Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, combat headquarters for the war on poverty. Predictably, though the figure represents a 25% increase over OEO's current budget, it was nowhere near enough to satisfy everybody. Speaking for the U.S. Conference of Mayors Detroit's Jerome Cavanagh promptly complained that at least $3 billion was needed to do the job properly...
...charges of partisanship, the institute has balanced its guest list with an eye to political realities. First came Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, whose appearance touched off a raucous student protest (TIME, Nov. 18). Then came Republican House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, followed by Detroit's Democratic Mayor Jerome Cavanagh. Scheduled this spring are Republican George Romney and Democrat Carl Sanders, former Governor of Georgia...