Word: cobo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four days, the oldsters streamed through the lobbies of Detroit's hotels, singing hymns and loyally downing vitamin pills. But despite the undaunted doctor, the delegates could not help feeling a little querulous. Detroit's Mayor Albert E. Cobo had pleaded that he was too busy to welcome them. By solemn resolution, the delegates found the excuse flimsy and the mayor's conduct "an outrageous insult." Politicians didn't do that sort of thing in the old days...