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Detroit's youthful, grinny Mayor Edward Jeffries got through the nonpartisan primaries last week. But-as almost no one expected-he finished a poor second to up-&-coming John Francis James Fitz-Gerald. Reasons for the upset: 1) C.I.O. members voting for FitzGerald; 2) Negroes voting against Jeffries.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Upset in Detroit | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Read TIME to learn of achievements of Lieut. Colonel Harry G. Armstrong, who received the John Jeffries award for 1941, and the Collier award in 1939 for the outstanding achievement of the year in aviation medicine. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1943 | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

From Detroit's Mayor Edward J. Jeffries came outraged protest: "I'll match Detroit's patriotism against any other city's in the country. Why. anyone who lives here knows we haven't had a major labor dispute, except the D.S.R. [Department of Street Railways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Hitler or the U. S.? | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Abrams, E. J. '45, Kirkland 1-34KIR 6081 Abrams, I. A. '44, Winthrop D-21 ELI 2770 Acker, E. '46, Leverett A-22 KIR 2771 Adams, G. C. '45, Lowell B-11-12 KIR 7710 Aley, M. P. '45, Dunster J-52 KIR 4689 Allan, B. H. '46, Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEPHONE DIRECTORY | 8/19/1942 | See Source »

Not since Mrs. Amelia Bloomer created an international uproar in 1849 by appearing in public in voluminous Turkish trousers had such a feminine trouser sensation swept the country. High-school girls in Brooklyn's big Abraham Lincoln High School struck for the right to wear slacks. In Detroit Mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pants | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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