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Word: cermak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publication will print articles of criticism relating to the subject of education at Harvard and elsewhere, and to the relationship of college students to social and political problems. Last year the Critic had contributions from Herbert Hoover, Clarence Darrow, Billy Sunday, Ann Corio, Anton Cermak, Herbert Lehman, and other persons of intellectual eminence. The new Critic intends to have similar contributions this year in each issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW CRITIC TO APPEAR AS 16-PAGE MAGAZINE | 9/23/1933 | See Source »

...over, President Roosevelt cruised down the Hudson as the guest of Vincent Astor, realtor, banker, backer of the forthcoming weekly Today (see p. 24). With them were half a dozen non-political friends-the same group that fished together off Florida last February just before Chicago's Mayor Cermak was assassinated at Miami. Above the Nourmahal floated the Presidential flag-four white stars on a blue field. President Roosevelt thought it was the first time in U. S. history that that emblem had been used on a private yacht. Heeling the Nourmahal were two naval watchdogs, the destroyers Twiggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Sep. 11, 1933 | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...dummy concerns to buy and sell building materials at outrageous prices. With his indictment quashed, Engineer Kelly was technically outside this Chicago scandal. But its shadow was enough to bar him from serious consideration as a candidate for high elective office. In 1931 "Tony" Cermak was overwhelmingly nominated for Mayor. At Cermak's death old Boss Pat Nash who succeeded him as Democratic National Committeeman wanted to be Mayor. Young, aggressive State's Attorney Thomas Courtney backed Corporation Counsel William H. Sexton, chief Cermak adviser, for the job. They compromised on Ed Kelly. As soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES AND CITIES: Hearst v. Kelly | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...President Roosevelt filled the Federal Reserve Board with the appointments of John Jacob Thomas, Nebraska farmer-lawyer, and Menc S. Szymczak, Comptroller of Chicago, good friend of the late martyred Mayor Tony Cermak. Other Presidential nominations: Maryland's William Stanley to be Assistant to the Attorney General; Utah's Harold M. Stephen, Florida's Frank J. Wideman to be Assistant Attorneys General; Tennessee's John Harcourt Alexander Morgan* and Wisconsin's David E. Lilienthal to be Tennessee Valley Authority directors; Pennsylvania's Carroll Miller, brother-in-law of Demo-cratic Boss "Joe" Guffey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...Franklin Roosevelt flew to Chicago to accept the Presidential nomination he promised Mayor Cermak, since murdered, to be on hand for the opening of Chicago's Century of Progress. Last week Rufus Cutler Dawes, Fair president, accompanied by Col. Albert Arnold Sprague and onetime Postmaster General Harry Stewart New, marched into the White House, asked the President if he could officiate June 1. The President was sorry but that day he would be handing out diplomas at Annapolis. How about May 27? "That's bully!" declared President Roosevelt. For the opening the President will push a button connected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No Dictatorship | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

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