Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seats to be filled; only here and there was a Representative elected to fill a vacancy in the House. Just one Governor was to be chosen where there was any possible doubt of the outcome of the election. Most of the interest centered on the mayoralty fights in Boston, Detroit, New York City, Louisville, Kansas City, Indianapolis...
Clarence Darrow, that brilliant criminal lawyer who specializes in lost hopes, has recently been accused of moral cowardice by his best advertised adversary; yet he did not hesitate to tell a large audience of Detroit negroes that their race has really very little to complain about. Slavery he said dispassionately, had been a good thing for them. It had given them a chance at civilization long before their time, and whatever troubles they might encounter are the price they must pay for the value of premature contact with something better than their primitive condition in Africa...
Whatever the Reverend Doctor Straton may think about it, considerable moral courage is necessary for facing a negro audience with such bald statements, especially in race-crazed Detroit. Moreover, Mr. Darrow's attitude toward the negro problem could well be brought to the attention of fire-eating white supremacists and sentimental advocates of racial equality. Hysterical pity for the down trodden negro from one kind of idealist, and blind recrimination of the black race from another, are equally futile. Any constructive settlement for this problem can only come from just such cool consideration of the peculiar necessities arising from...
...centre of optimism, Detroit is giving California and even Florida some stiff competition. Automobile-makers there are now planning their 1926 production schedules, and they are not doing it halfheartedly...
This situation in the opinion of Detroit, spells the most competitive year ahead in the history of the industry. It seems doubtful whether the public demand will absorb this greater production. The probability therefore is that the more popular and efficient motor producers will make further inroads upon their less favored competitors...