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...Judge Jarecki rules against us," mourned Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak of Chicago last week, "we might have to close the City Hall...
...desperation Chicago and Cook County (the two corporations are practically identical, and Mayor Cermak as political boss controls both) last week tried to get Illinois General Assembly to invent some means of raising cash. The General Assembly dallied and adjourned without giving Chicago help. Snarled Mayor Cermak: "They had it in their power to remedy this situation. When they adjourned without giving relief, it simply scuttled the ship, and Chicago is sunk...
...past mortgaged itself for 320 million dollars. Dec. 31 it was obligated to pay $11,312,928 on interest and principal. It lacked the money. It lacked cash to pay even school teachers, policemen, firemen, and other public servants. As a device to raise cash Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak with Board Chairman James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co. tried to sell $36,000,000 of "tax anticipation warrants." Few investors bought. For a third of the district's real estate tax is delinquent already. Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor scoffed: "There just isn't any market, and there...
...Chicago Tribune appeared the following proclamation, typewritten over the signature of Mayor Anton J, Cermak...
...suspected the latter of playing both ends against the middle to win Wet and Dry favor. Mr. Smith has vowed that the next Democratic nominee must be as Wet as he is. While Governor Roosevelt was last week getting the backing of Senator Clarence C. Dill of Washington, Mayor Cermak of Chicago was in New York hobnobbing with Tammany leaders and Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, presumably developing a tri-State Wet Democratic alliance...