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Chicago Democrats had their orders from their mayor and boss, Anton Cermak. when Governor Roosevelt's train rolled into Union Station at 9 p. m. Two hundred thousand of them from every city ward were on hand. Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles. Men in linen dusters carried red fireballs aloft. Bands blared, whistles shrieked, sidewalk crowds roared. It took Governor Roosevelt, in a huge white touring car, 45 minutes to edge his way seven blocks through the human pack to his hotel. Not for years...
...Anton Joseph Cermak, Democratic Mayor of Chicago, called at the White House. Because he had no appointment he did not see President Hoover. A caller who did see the President was Roland Robinson, 24, youngest member of the British House of Commons...
...have to tell you that Levys don't eat hogs. If Horner is elected, hog prices are bound to drop. Furthermore, Jews run pawnshops, and the first thing Horner will do if he gets to Springfield is open a pawnshop. He was put up by Tony Cermak [Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago, who turned Thompson out of office] to get the Jewish vote, and he's trying to get the Catholic vote, too. by sending his children to a Catholic parochial school...
Said Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak, returning from a European boosting trip for his city's 1933 World's Fair: "New York and Chicago certainly have got terrible reputations...
...Hyde Park High School, with Lawyer Aaron Sapiro of Chicago & Manhattan as counsel. Three weeks ago the teachers received $2,224,143 in real cash, bringing their salaries up to April 1. Last fortnight the Chicago Herald & Examiner obtained from Germany by telephoto a letter from junketing Mayor Anton Cermak authorizing the issuance of $6,750,000 of tax anticipation warrants, some of which were paid to teachers who had refused city "scrip" last summer. Many Chicago merchants and landlords accept tax warrants...