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...their party, more than 2,000 delegates and alternates trooped into the city. Most of them wearied their feet on the hard floors of hotel lobbies, whispered unimportances, made use of Democratic Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak's free baseball and theatre tickets, waited to do their bosses' bidding when the convention got underway at the Stadium...
...nothing to the support of local government. Mrs. Cisar's case forged to the front for a court test. Last December a Cook County judge sustained her refusal to pay taxes, thereby invalidating the 1928-29 assessments on the ground that they were "reeking with fraud." Mayor Cermak warned that City Hall would have to close unless Chicago soon got some cash (TIME...
Jubilant was Mayor Cermak at a decision which would put real money into his city's hollow treasury. Said he: "It sets us on the way to a normal financial condition and restores confidence in our securties. ... I make a personal appeal to all who have not paid their taxes to do so at once...
Judge Horner received the primary returns in Boss Cermak's City Hall office. When cameramen arrived, he modestly disappeared. Boss Cermak, after ordering him back over the telephone, explained : "He says he'll come when he gets damn good & ready. I guess that proves I'm not his boss." Later Nominee Horner returned to be photographed but objected when cameramen ordered: "Take off your coat-shake your fists-hold your hands above your head." Mayor Cermak tried to get him to comply. When he still refused, Boss Cermak again loudly boasted that his nominee was unbossed...
First shot of the campaign fired by Boss Cermak: "God help the people of Illinois if Len Small should be elected Governor and do to Illinois what his friend, 'Big Bill' Thompson did to Chicago...