Word: cermak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden death of Mayor Cermak, in the midst of such tragic circumstances, is certain to evoke a stream of comment, some of it sober and sympathetic, some of it hectic and immoderate. The temptation to dramatize his rise from poverty and obscurity to the throne of a harassed metropolis will not be resisted for long. Still, it is true that his stewardship was, for two years, remarkably well acquitted. And he did come perilously close to confounding his party by an unwelcome fulfillment of their promise that he would be "the best mayor Chicago ever...
...called to the chauffeur to stop. "I saw Mayor Cermak being carried. . . . He was alive, but I didn't think he was going to last. I put my left arm around him and my hand on his pulse, but I couldn't find any pulse...
...After we had gone another block, Mayor Cermak straightened up and I got his pulse. ... I remember I said, 'Tony, keep quiet-don't move. It won't hurt you if you keep quiet...
Chance also smiled that night on Rex Saffer, Associated Pressman. He was standing directly in front of Zangara who fired over Saffer's left shoulder, scorching his coat. At first Newshawk Saffer thought it was "some fool firing blank cartridges." Not until he saw Mayor Cermak drop did he realize what was happening. Then he wriggled out of the crowd, raced by Mr. Roosevelt who was calling out "I'm all right," and dove to a telephone under the park bandstand to send a flash...
...lingering in the park when most of the Press photographers had started ahead to the Roosevelt special train, 27-year-old Sammy Schulman, for 14 years an International News Photo cameraman, was rewarded with a startling action picture of Mayor Cermak a few seconds after he had been wounded. His picture of the bleeding Mayor (see cut) was also distributed through Acme because Acme carried the photograph in its plane to Manhattan. The picture approaches in sensational spontaneity the picture that alert William Warneke made for the oldtime Evening World of New York's Mayor Gaynor within...