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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...
...Pickler, Assassin...
First attempt to assassinate Pacifist Ozaki occurred in 1917 when two Japanese with drawn short swords rushed a lecture platform from which he was speaking. Some time later 13 members of a Japanese nationalist assassination league tried to kill him in his own home, were sent sprawling by four faithful servants who had been studying jiu-jitsu in their spare time against just such an emergency. Shinave Ozaki, one of his quarter-British daughters,* smuggled him out of the house in one of her kimonos. Since then Dr. Ozaki has lived abroad, in Britain and the U. S., lecturing...
Thus bouncing around on the trunk rack the would-be assassin of the next President rode first to the hospital to unload his victims, then to Miami's skyscraper jail where he was stripped and safely locked up on the 21st floor...
Because of something recognizably superior in the Arliss personality, one finds a peculiarly human atmosphere in all his films. The author of "Up from Blooms bury" has an inherent gift that makes it not only believable but transparently natural that, for instance, an assassin who took some rather inaccurate pistol shots at him in the first part of the show, should later stand amongst an admiring crowd, reverently whispering "The king, the kind...