Word: cermak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing to the support of local government. Mrs. Cisar's case forged to the front for a court test. Last December a Cook County judge sustained her refusal to pay taxes, thereby invalidating the 1928-29 assessments on the ground that they were "reeking with fraud." Mayor Cermak warned that City Hall would have to close unless Chicago soon got some cash (TIME...
Jubilant was Mayor Cermak at a decision which would put real money into his city's hollow treasury. Said he: "It sets us on the way to a normal financial condition and restores confidence in our securties. ... I make a personal appeal to all who have not paid their taxes to do so at once...
Democrats. Mayor Cermak is the Democratic boss of Chicago. Last week's primary made him the Democratic boss of Illinois. He succeeded, by a 150,000-vote majority, in nominating for Governor a plump 53-year-old Jew named Henry Horner who has sat solemnly and well for the last 18 years on the bench of the Probate Court in Chicago...
Judge Horner received the primary returns in Boss Cermak's City Hall office. When cameramen arrived, he modestly disappeared. Boss Cermak, after ordering him back over the telephone, explained : "He says he'll come when he gets damn good & ready. I guess that proves I'm not his boss." Later Nominee Horner returned to be photographed but objected when cameramen ordered: "Take off your coat-shake your fists-hold your hands above your head." Mayor Cermak tried to get him to comply. When he still refused, Boss Cermak again loudly boasted that his nominee was unbossed...
First shot of the campaign fired by Boss Cermak: "God help the people of Illinois if Len Small should be elected Governor and do to Illinois what his friend, 'Big Bill' Thompson did to Chicago...