Word: cermak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First it had to choose a leader to fill the gap which Anton Joseph Cermak's death had left in the party organization. As expected, 70-year-old Patrick Austin Nash got the job as well as Cermak's place on the Democratic National Committee. A crony of the late Mayor and of Illinois Governor Henry Horner, he has been chairman of the Cook County Democratic Committee since 1931. Irish and crafty, always in a derby, he got his political education in the old school, under the late Boss Roger H. Sullivan...
Promising his party and city that he would not be a candidate in any special election, Acting Mayor Corr said he would adhere strictly to the Cermak policies of "economy, retrenchment and good government." Then he sat back to wait for the Legislature to confirm his dubious powers. With its employes still going unpaid, Chicago's most urgent need is for cash. Until the Legislature acts, Acting Mayor Corr's signature on $40,000,000 worth of tax anticipation warrants is worthless...
...Joseph Zangara's assassination of Chicago's Mayor Cermak (TIME, Feb. 27; March 13) ; a sentence to the electric chair ("and may God have mercy on your soul"); in Miami...
...back the grim, grey Montanan was feeling fine & fit for a short honeymoon. From Havana he flew with his plump bride, 20 years his junior, to Miami where he received official notification of his appointment to the Roosevelt Cabinet. He called at the hospital where Chicago's Mayor Cermak lay close to death. Going on to Daytona Beach Senator Walsh, an honest Dry, told newshawks that under him the Department of Justice would enforce the 18th Amendment up to the hilt until the repeal resolution is duly ratified...
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...