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...scientific papers presented were highly technical and mostly concerned with specialized details. (Example: neutron transport theory in slab lattices, L. Trlifaj and J. Cermak, Czechoslovakia.) Much more interesting to the public was the general feeling among the scientist delegates, as expressed in interviews or press conferences. The first Geneva conference, 1955, was notable for unaccustomed fraternization between scientists from Communist and non-Communist countries. It also took the secrecy lid off the technology of fission reactors that burn uranium or other heavy elements...
...when an assassin shot at Roosevelt while he was in Miami, and killed Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak instead, F.D.R. supplied an eyewitness account: "I heard what I thought was a firecracker; then several more ... I looked around and saw Mayor Cermak doubled up ... I called to the chauffeur to stop ... I motioned to have [Cermak] put in the back of the car ... I put my left arm around him and .my hand on his pulse, but I couldn't find any pulse. He slumped forward . . . That trip to the hospital seemed 30 miles long ... I said...
...Chicago's Sanitary District from tree-chopper to chief engineer, he struck up a firm alliance with well-heeled Sewer Contractor Patrick Nash, the other half of the famed Kelly-Nash machine. Chosen mayor by the city council in 1933 to fill the unexpired term of Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for President-elect Franklin Roosevelt), Kelly became sole Democratic boss of Chicago on Pat Nash's death ("To be a real mayor . . . you've got to be a boss...
...humor that comes from wringing a subject dry and then wringing it some more. "In late years," says Mencken, "it is me has even got support from eminent statesmen. When, just before Roosevelt II's inauguration day in 1933, the first New Deal martyr, the Hon. Anton J. Cermak, was shot ... he turned to Roosevelt and said, 'I'm glad it was me instead of you,' and when, in March 1946, the Right Hon. Winston Churchill made a recorded speech at New Haven, he introduced himself by saying, 'This is me, Winston Churchill...
...being overguarded (70 men on the regular White House Detail, hundreds when he went on speaking tours). The one & only serious attempt at assassination, despite some 5,000 threatening letters a month, was the Miami shooting in 1933 which resulted in the death of Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak...