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...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...
...killed in an unemployment disturbance. Twenty thousand Bonuseers, marching to Washington last summer, kept the peace until Congress adjourned and might have stayed peaceful if troops had not been sent to evict them with tear-gas and bayonets. Last week 15,000 hungry jobless paraded in Chicago, shouted "hang Cermak and Hoover!" Communist efforts to organize the unemployed into a revolutionary force have significantly failed. Doubtless the most potent factor in keeping the country steady and averting even the threat of an armed uprising has been the certainty?such as exists in no other large country?that...
...burned oil left heavy carbon deposits. Last week a new, light two-cycle engine was described by Dick Roberts, plump aviation editor of the Toledo Blade. It had just been flown for Army & Navy observers by a Toledoan, Bert Naseef, cousin of Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak. Invented by one B. J. Augustine, built by Champion Rotary Motors Co. of Buffalo for which Bert Naseef is test pilot, the engine has but 20 moving parts, all enclosed; only 241 parts in all, compared with about 4,000 in the average airplane engine. Eliminated are valves, springs, push rods...
...slot machines, bars, roulette tables, smart shops, fortune telling booths, a gangplank and reproduction of one side of the lie de France. Milling around in costumes that tried earnestly to look bohemian were 2,500 Chicago socialites and celebrities. Fresh from welcoming Governor Roosevelt to town, Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak arrived in an orange beret, stayed late...
Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak...