Word: anton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First it had to choose a leader to fill the gap which Anton Joseph Cermak's death had left in the party organization. As expected, 70-year-old Patrick Austin Nash got the job as well as Cermak's place on the Democratic National Committee. A crony of the late Mayor and of Illinois Governor Henry Horner, he has been chairman of the Cook County Democratic Committee since 1931. Irish and crafty, always in a derby, he got his political education in the old school, under the late Boss Roger H. Sullivan...
Dare-Devil. In Munich dare-devil Count Anton Arco-Vally who in 1919 assassinated the then Socialist Premier of Bavaria but was set free in 1927, said candidly last week that he now intends to assassinate Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Just before the Chancellor arrived by plane in Munich-traditional Fascist headquarters -the Count was placed in a cell, still firmly maintaining that he will assassinate Herr Hitler. Just after the Chancellor left for Berlin, Munich's Police Chief claimed to have prevented an attack on Handsome Adolf's life by three men who deposited three hand grenades...
Executed. Joe Zangara, 33, assassin of Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak; at 9:17 a. m. March 20 in the State Prison electric chair in Raiford, Fla. In the death room he spat, "Lousy capitalists. No scared of chair. . . . What! Nobody take pictures?" He half-said, "Good-by," when the current jolted through...
...Capt. Anton Heinen, German dirigible pilot, was hired by the U. S. Government in 1923 to help train a crew for the Navy's first dirigible, Shenandoah. Out of Navy employ, he formed a company three years ago in Atlantic City, N. J. to build and sell "air yachts" (small blimps) for $10,000 each (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930). He built & flew one, for demonstration, made no sales. Next week the demonstration ship (104-ft. long, four passenger) will be auctioned in Atlantic City to satisfy a claim...
...Died. Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak, 59, Mayor of Chicago; of gangrenous pneumonia resulting from a gunshot wound; in Miami where he had been hospitalized since the night of Feb. 15 when in Bay Front Park he was hit in the abdomen by a bullet aimed by Assassin Joe Zangara at President-elect Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 27). Born in Bohemia, Cermak was taken to the U. S. when one year old. He drove a mule in Illinois coal mines before he was 12. In Chicago he started as a teamster, built up his own trucking company, expanded into real estate...