Word: cermak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four Chicago aldermen were in Hot Springs, Ark. last week not for the baths but to select a mayor for their city. The Illinois Legislature had refused to call a special election to fill the vacancy left by assassinated Anton Joseph Cermak. Gruff old Boss Patrick Nash, who succeeded Cermak on the Democratic National Committee, and Democratic Governor Henry Homer had then nudged a bill through the Legislature permitting the City Council. Democratic 37 to 13, to choose Chicago's chief executive...
...Whatever Mayor Cermak stood for, I stand for!" cried tousle-headed Mayor Kelly. He promised to do his best to get an R. F. C. loan to give city employes their back pay. Next day he issued $1,700,000 worth of tax anticipation warrants, the hackneyed method by which Chicago has been preventing the wolf from coming all the way through its civic door since 1928. With this money he paid Chicago schoolteachers the first week's salary they had had in months...
...Because the late Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago voted against seating the delegation of Senator Huey P. Long at the Democratic National Convention. . . . When Governor Allen was appealed to, he also forbade the sending of the exhibit to Chicago...
...following day brought an avalanche of news to editors' desks throughout the land. Herbert Hoover was leaving the White House. Franklin Roosevelt was going in. ... Banks all over the country were being closed by decree. ... A wild stockmarket. . . . Jehol fell to the Japanese. . . . Mayor Cermak was dying. . . . President Roosevelt asked extraordinary powers. . . . Extra session to deal with banks...
Executed. Joe Zangara, 33, assassin of Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak; at 9:17 a. m. March 20 in the State Prison electric chair in Raiford, Fla. In the death room he spat, "Lousy capitalists. No scared of chair. . . . What! Nobody take pictures?" He half-said, "Good-by," when the current jolted through...