Word: miriani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wayward Footsteps. Gordon's most effective brickbats have been tossed at the mayor's office. In 1960, he proclaimed that Detroit's Mayor Louis Miriani was running the city $34 million in the red, despite a city charter specifically outlawing deficit spending. Then Gordon let it be known that Miriani had amassed a too-chic-to-be-mayorly wardrobe, also had been junketing to New York at the expense of lobbyists as well as soliciting city-government appointees to buy $10 tickets to his annual birthday parties. Federal authorities and listeners were equally appalled; Miriani...
...Kaiser Broadcasting signed Gordon up for a 10 p.m.-to-midnight Sunday TV show on Detroit's WKBD. Detroit Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, who displaced incumbent Miriani in 1962 thanks partly to Gordon's exposes, unsuccessfully sought to get his onetime friend and ally fired. His reason: Gordon had turned on Cavanagh, accusing him of borrowing money from appointees, heavy drinking, womanizing and generally following in the wayward footsteps of Miriani. In July, Gordon broke the news that the mayor's wife Mary had filed suit for separate maintenance. A few weeks ago, Gordon opened wounds again...
...breadth of Cavanagh's support is clearly a result of his spectacular record in office. After his upset victory four years ago over incumbent Louis Miriani, Cavanagh did not owe any political favors and was able to frame both definitions and solutions of the city's problems. He began by slapping an income tax on everyone who lived or worked in the city, and in four years the city has been able to turn a large deficit into a surplus, to increase municipal services, raise salaries (police salaries went up 25 per cent), and lower the property tax, Cavanagh...
...odds were heavy that Detroit's amiable Mayor Louis Miriani, 64, would be re-elected in a breeze. After a decade on Detroit's governing Common Council and four years in the mayor's office, Miriani seemed to be an institution. He had the support not only of Detroit's daily newspapers but of civic leaders ranging from labor officials to Henry Ford II to Democratic Senator Patrick McNamara. Opposing Miriani in the nonpartisan election was an unknown named Jerome P. Cavanagh, 33, a lawyer who had never before run for public office. At first, Cavanagh...
...Miriani maintained that Detroit was in good shape, pointed with pride to his record as mayor; he cited a $47 million urban renewal program with seven major projects under way, economies that had saved the city some $25 million, the completion of the $70 million Cobo Convention Hall and Arena. Cried Miriani: "Detroit is on the move to a destiny of greatness...