Word: cobo
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...Detroit, City Treasurer Albert E. Cobo finished handily ahead of ten other candidates in the city's nonpartisan mayoralty primary, seemed a sure bet for election in November. An ex-salesman for the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., Cobo was called in to straighten out the city's rickety finances in 1933, for the past 16 years has been quietly building up a loyal following among Detroit's foreign-born groups. The runner-up, and Cobo's November rival: Harvard-trained Council President George Edwards, 35, a onetime organizer for the C.I.O.'s Auto Workers. Edwards...
...Government, while not overanxious to keep the ravished province, found the rape excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President Olaya Herrera and short, jovial General Vasquez Cobo embraced enthusiastically as the diplomatic squabble ended in a virtuous decision to return Leticia to Mother...
...Paris, several years ago, Peru's President Sanchez Cerro (then a lieutenant colonel) argued the merits of this treaty fiercely with General Vasquez Cobo, charged that it was signed under the influence of bribes. So tart were the General's retorts that Latin friends of the peppery pair said afterward: "They almost fought a duel...
Louis Rice Wasey, board chairman of Erwin, Wasey 8 Co. (advertising agency), and Edwin Eugene Taylor, one-time executive vice president of General Foods Corp, formed Bahama Isles Foods Corp. to manufacture and distribute meat of the pink conch. Though natives look upon el cobo (great Bahama conch) as their staff of life, it has never been commercialized...