Word: antone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd cheered and clapped as the President-elect slid back down to the seat. On the bandstand sat Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak. Mr. Roosevelt beckoned him down to his car. "Hello, Tony!" "Hello, Mr. President!" After a moment's chat Mayor Cermak turned to walk away. A man rushed up to hand Mr. Roosevelt a long telegram. The President- elect started to read- Bang! Joe Zangara was standing up on a wobbly bench among the spectators firing his pistol at President-elect Roosevelt not 35 ft. away. The first shot dropped Margaret Kruis, Newark showgirl, with...
Without bothering to trump up charges, the royal police pounced on Rev. Anton Koroshetz, Slovene minority leader and on Dr. Vladko Matchek, Croat minority leader who was dragged at night out of a restaurant at Zagreb, hustled off to Belgrade without being permitted to say good-by to his wife & children...
...years there have been no great boom-time financial killings, so there has been no recurrence of the seven-man St. Valentine's Day killing in Chicago in 1929. Nevertheless, Chicago still has hoodlums, some of them veterans of surprising years. Last week, in accordance with Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak's command to tidy up the town before the Century of Progress opens this summer, Chicago's police force published a second revised edition of its public enemy list. Numbers...
...hoariness or tradition clings to Premier. It was formed soon after Prohibition by Anton Spaeth of Decatur, Ill. who saw that there would be a home-brew market for malt. In order to better his product he hired Messrs. Perlstein & Singer. So able were they that within a few months they were partners in the business and soon controlled it. Premier bought a second plant at Steubenville, Ohio and then a third in the once great whiskey city of Peoria. It concentrated on malt products and thrived while the old-line companies struggled to sell near beer...
...went to Thomas Leonard of Lincoln, Neb. Edward of Wales signed once, for a Michigan girl, added "Hope you win the prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch to stem the flood of letters. Most signatures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (post-convention), Charles Spence Chaplin, Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified as rubber-stamps. Revealed as refusers-to-sign were: George V, Paul von Hindenburg, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, John Davison Rockfeller Sr., Al Capone. Most reluctant (one each) were: Henry Ford, Greta Garbo, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Tom Mooney, Edward of Wales, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius...