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...Winnetka, Ill. Chicago-born son of one Solomon A. Levy, he was four when his parents separated; he and his mother took her maiden name. After 18 years' judgeship in Cook County Probate Court, he ran for Governor in 1932, sponsored by the late Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak, whose subsequent assassination left Horner politically free. Governor ever since, he agreed with the Kelly-Nash machine only on Term III. A bachelor, he found time to become an authority on Lincoln...
...greater percentage of really fine folks than any city of similar size in the country. I should like to have you personally spend an evening with any of our fine family, club or social groups, or spend a day talking and visiting with our business and professional men on Cermak Road, or the side business streets, and I'll wager that thereafter your opinion would not be so biased...
...Also the birthplace of the late Anton J. Cermak, mayor of Chicago, assassinated in Florida six years ago. There also Czechoslovakia's first and revered President, Thomas G. Masaryk, made his first political speech...
...Thomas E. Dewey" of New York, Republican Green is expected to give Kelly & crew at least a good workout before election day, April 4. Long-shot bettors pointed out that his primary vote (211,965) was almost as large as that polled by the late Democrat Anton J. ("Tony") Cermak when he upset Chicago's Republicans...
...peak in the 20's, when both Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge had occasion to sleep in its soft beds, the Hamilton had 3,800 members. But Chicago Republicanism struck hard times two full years before the New Deal, when the late Anton J. Cermak swept clownish Republican Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson out of City Hall. Membership dropped from 2,300 in 1930 to less than 1,000 in 1935. That year, owing $215,000 in back taxes and penalties and $86,666 back rent on its site to the estate of Supreme Court...