Word: cermak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd cheered and clapped as the President-elect slid back down to the seat. On the bandstand sat Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak. Mr. Roosevelt beckoned him down to his car. "Hello, Tony!" "Hello, Mr. President!" After a moment's chat Mayor Cermak turned to walk away. A man rushed up to hand Mr. Roosevelt a long telegram. The President- elect started to read- Bang! Joe Zangara was standing up on a wobbly bench among the spectators firing his pistol at President-elect Roosevelt not 35 ft. away. The first shot dropped Margaret Kruis, Newark showgirl, with...
Bang! The second bullet drilled into Mayor Cermak's belly, on the right, just below the ribs. He crumpled to his knees. Blood oozed through his white shirt, making a narrow rectangle parallel to his belt...
...there have been no great boom-time financial killings, so there has been no recurrence of the seven-man St. Valentine's Day killing in Chicago in 1929. Nevertheless, Chicago still has hoodlums, some of them veterans of surprising years. Last week, in accordance with Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak's command to tidy up the town before the Century of Progress opens this summer, Chicago's police force published a second revised edition of its public enemy list. Numbers...
Illinois issued charters to a dozen new Chicago breweries bearing such names as Citizens, Eagle, Old Style Lager, Fortune. Chicago's Bohemian-born Mayor Cermak, through a friend, closed a deal for U. s' rights to the product of Pilsen...
...Thomas Leonard of Lincoln, Neb. Edward of Wales signed once, for a Michigan girl, added "Hope you win the prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch to stem the flood of letters. Most signatures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (post-convention), Charles Spence Chaplin, Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified as rubber-stamps. Revealed as refusers-to-sign were: George V, Paul von Hindenburg, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, John Davison Rockfeller Sr., Al Capone. Most reluctant (one each) were: Henry Ford, Greta Garbo, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Tom Mooney, Edward of Wales, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius...