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Democrats. Mayor Cermak is the Democratic boss of Chicago. Last week's primary made him the Democratic boss of Illinois. He succeeded, by a 150,000-vote majority, in nominating for Governor a plump 53-year-old Jew named Henry Horner who has sat solemnly and well for the last 18 years on the bench of the Probate Court in Chicago...
...election for village president, State Senator Richey Graham, son-in-law of Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak of Chicago, saw an opportunity to break the Republicans' 16-year grip on Cicero. Mayor Cermak sent 230 policemen from Chicago to Cicero on election day to see that the voting took place without irregularities. Fifty Republican partisans were arrested the night before the balloting. Also arrested was Editor Lewis Cowen of the Cicero Tribune. He promptly sued the Chicago chief of detectives...
...result of his gang-busting Judge Wilkerson not only received his appointment but the backing of the Illinois Congressional delegation of both parties, Senators Lewis and Glenn, Mayor Cermak of Chicago, the Chicago Bar Association, Attorney General Mitchell, President Melvin Alvah Traylor of Chicago's First National Bank and a host of solid citizens. In contesting Judge Wilkerson's appointment to a higher court. Labor found itself unhappily sided with Organized Crime...
Against Mayor Cermak was precisely how Judge Edmund Kasper Jarecki did rule, holding the 1928-29 Cook County tax rolls invalid. Unless the State Supreme Court reverses the decision, new tax rolls will have to be compiled before $140,000,000 in back revenue can be collected. That sum represents a 22.2% nonpayment for 1928. 35.3% for 1929. Inasmuch as the 1930 rolls are based on those for 1928, they are presumably invalid. No attempt has yet been made to collect either 1930's or last year's taxes...
...proposed to draft a bill to fund $388,000,000 worth of Cook County's unpaid 1928-30 taxes. It was quite evident that, with the County in technical default for $1,868,400 due last June, investors would be slow indeed to buy any more of Mayor Cermak's tax anticipation warrants. Last week speculation as to a possible receivership for Chicago grew louder & louder...