Word: cermak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deny the accuracy of the description. The crowd in the two balconies was composed mainly of visitors from States other than Illinois. There were some 300 of us from Michigan. Chicagoans packed the balconies for only one session, being admitted on passes stamped with Mayor Cermak's signature. Legitimate convention guests complained so effectively that the doorkeepers were changed. These guests were people of influence and property in their various communities- friends of delegates, of State chairmen and national committee men and women. They knew what was transpiring in the hotel rooms between sessions. In that notorious night session...
...were some of society's finest flowers?Byrds from Virginia, Maryland's Ritchie, New York's Davis. Like Irish potatoes and more noxious growths were the city delegations?Tammany's full-blown ward heelers, micks from Brooklyn and Boston, hybrids from Chicago under the leadership of Mayor Anton J. Cermak, lusty bumpkins from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, and drooping gone-to-seed specimens from the country roadsides of all the States. Beside each delegation, like sticks showing what had been planted there, stood the state guidons. On the platform above the massed delegates, in a little orchard of flags...
...Capone stronghold of Cicero, Ill., 10,000 people waited to greet Nominee Roosevelt. James Roosevelt, 23, Franklin Jr., 17. Mrs. Curtis Dall, 23, all of whom had witnessed the convention, fought their way to their father's side. In the crush his glasses were knocked from his nose. Mayor Cermak accompanied him on a swift swing through the city to the Stadium. As Nominee Roosevelt sighted the buildings for next year's World Fair he promised Mayor Cermak to officiate as President of the U. S. at the opening ceremony...
...National Chairman Raskob, often accused by Republicans of trying to "smear Hoover," got a titter when he said he had looked up "smear" in the dictionary and found it meant "to anoint a dead body with sacred oil before burial." Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army prayed. Mayor Cermak rumbled a speech of welcome which soon descended to a partisan harangue. Then Senator Barkley, tall, paunchy, all in white, launched vigorously into his keynote address (see p. 12). Most delegates, mindful of the fight to come, did not overtax their lungs or palms with applause...
...their party, more than 2,000 delegates and alternates trooped into the city. Most of them wearied their feet on the hard floors of hotel lobbies, whispered unimportances, made use of Democratic Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak's free baseball and theatre tickets, waited to do their bosses' bidding when the convention got underway at the Stadium...