Word: cermak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hospital.) Physicians found that a bullet had grazed Mayor Cermak's liver and lodged at the back of his abdomen in his spine. His condition was critical. Mrs. Gill was on the brink of death as the result of a stomach wound. The other three were suffering only from flesh wounds...
...President-elect Roosevelt stood up in his car, waved his arms at the panicky onlookers. His clear voice rang strongly above the din: "I'm all right! I'm all right." His car started out of the packed people. Somebody jumped on the running board yelling: "Mayor Cermak's shot." Mr. Roosevelt had the car stopped. "Good Lord!" he exclaimed. "Bring him here. Put him in my car." Supported by William Wood, Dade County Democratic leader, Chicago's "World's Fair Mayor,"* sagging with shock, was lifted into the Roosevelt machine. The President-elect held...
Canceling his special train home, President-elect Roosevelt lingered at the hospital. He went in softly to see Mayor Cermak after the nurses got him comfortable in bed. His face taut with pain, the Mayor looked up at the President-elect and murmured: "I'm mighty glad it was me instead of you. I wish you'd be careful. The country needs...
Next morning Mr. Roosevelt paid a second visit to the hospital before starting for New York. Mayor Cermak and Mrs. Gill were holding their own. Perhaps they would not die after all. The President-elect urged the Mayor to "hurry up and get well in time to attend the inaugural." Later aboard his private car Mr. Roosevelt called newshawks about him, calmly gave them his version of what happened...
...looked around and saw Mayor Cermak doubled up and Mrs. Gill collapsing...