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Detroit's Most Exclusive Social Clique, the Cultured, Colored "40"
Includes portraits of Bishop C.E. Smith, James H. Cole, Lomax Cook, Dr. Albert H. Johnson, and Dr. W.E. Johnson, and picture of latter's drawing room
Detroit's Most-Discussed Mixed Marriage; Wealthy Auto Manufacturing Heir, Negro Wife Take Short Honeymoon to Escape Hounding by Newsmen
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest O. Briggs.
Detroit's Mayor, He Went All Out to Help the Poor, But
Assesses race relations aspects of Cavanagh administration.
Detroit's House of Vending: Cooper-Pope Corporation Is Largest Coin Machine Firm in the World
Corporation headed by Taylor H. Cooper, President and Secretary-Treasurer LeRoy B. Pope, operates in Detroit, Pontiac and Flint.
Detroit's Good Living; the Motor City's Negroes Makes No Bones about it.
Contains many pictures of the wealthy and their homes
Detroit's Economic Disaster
Reports riots of preceding week.
Detroit's Arsenal of Democracy Where Mixed Races Work in Harmony
Pictures some of skilled blacks working at Detroit Arsenal at Centerline
Detroit Welfare Situation Remains Alarming
Negro welfare recipients are 17.7% total welfare load; in 1930 Census constituted 7.7% of total city population
Detroit: Up from the Ashes
Quotes several black leaders in reporting progress and program of New Detroit Committee