Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ROBERT SEESE Detroit, Mich...
...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...
...President Coolidge sent his regrets to the Paris Exposition of Decorative Arts: the U.S. had "nothing to contribute" in furniture design. Last week a big, glossy exhibit, "For Modern Living," was showing visitors to the Detroit Institute of Arts how the U.S. has caught up in a quarter-century...
Kokomo & Kalamazoo. Detroit's show was more than a get-together of well-known designing names. There were chairs, rugs, dishes, kitchenware and other useful objects from Kokomo, Kankakee and Kalamazoo, as well as from the designing centers of New York, Detroit and Los Angeles. Garbage containers and stainless-steel pails fashioned by factory workers in Sheboygan got as much display as custom fabrics and ceramics from Manhattan's Madison Avenue...
After Due Consideration. In Detroit, Mrs. Sophie Nichols won an annulment when she testified that her bridegroom had picked up the presents and the pocketbooks of the female guests and disappeared from their wedding reception...