Word: cavanagh
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Detroit Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh severely criticized the Johnson Administration's budget priorities and praised recent Supreme Court decisions regarding arrested persons' rights yesterday...
...Detroit, Mayor Jerry Cavanagh lost his battle with the city's retailers, and this year the annual "Detroit Aglow" ceremony will light off on Nov. 21 instead of Nov. 28. In Chicago, Montgomery Ward sent out its holiday catalogues three weeks earlier this year than last, Marshall Field & Co. will have its Christmas trees up a week earlier, and along Michigan Avenue, the stores of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Assn. have put up their decorations two weeks earlier than last year...
...mayors of eight of the largest U.S. cities took their place behind a makeshift wooden table to describe their problems to the Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization, holding its second week of hearings on the plight of U.S. cities. The subcommittee heaped lavish praise on Detroit's Jerome Cavanagh. It had kind words for Oakland's John H. Reading, praised New Haven's Richard C. Lee and Atlanta's Ivan Allen Jr. Chairman Ab raham Ribicoff of Connecticut and New York's Robert Kennedy, both Democrats, went so far as to pose with New York...
Personality & Loyalty. Brash, liberal and articulate, Cavanagh took a more cerebral approach, but he failed to read correctly just what he faced, beginning with the opposition of the state Democratic hierarchy. Though both candidates were prolabor and pro-civil rights, Soapy had been helping Negroes and laborers when Cavanagh was in short pants-and they knew it. Cavanagh's 1% city income tax in Detroit proved unpopular, and many Negroes were alienated when he toyed earlier this year with the idea of a "stop-and-frisk law" that would allow police to search suspicious persons. Then, too, there...
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). A special on the Annual Conference of Mayors, broadcast live from Dallas and featuring interviews with New York's John V. Lindsay, Los Angeles' Samuel W. Yorty, Detroit's Jerome P. Cavanagh, Boston's John F. Collins, Atlanta's Ivan Allen Jr. and New Haven's Richard...