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When Chicago elects a Mayor it gets his services quickly. Last week, 43 hours after the last of his 194,257 vote majority over William Hale Thompson had been cast, Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak né Chermock was sworn in as Mayor of Chicago. His first act was to dismiss 3,000 non-Civil Service appointees of Thompson and hold up the pay of 3,000 more until he was satisfied "they had performed bona fide service...
Chicago last week decided to change Mayors. It voted out Republican William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson after three blustering terms in city hall, voted in Democrat Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak. The Cermak majority was 200,000. In line with Press polls which plainly foreshadowed the defeat of "Thompsonism," the second city of the land had chosen a onetime pushcart peddler, Bohemian-born, to preside at its World's Fair in 1933. His biggest promise: "Restoration of Chicago's lost reputation...
...winter the Chicago Tribune campaigned against Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson with ugly cartoons and comment like this...
...telephone girl's part in the Spanish revolution scene. TIME will continue to "borrow" (i.e. employ) the best radio dramatic talent available. Another of Collier's actors is William ("Bill" ) Adams who does "Uncle Henry." In "The March of Time" he has played Mayor William Hale Thompson, Speaker Longworth, and the resurrected soldier of Miracle at Verdun...
...victory was what newspaper straw polls last week indicated Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak, Democratic nominee for Mayor of Chicago, would win over Republican Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson in next week's municipal election. But three factors put a discount on this political forecast: 1) the straw-polling journals (the Tribune and Daily News) were noisily campaigning for Nominee Cermak; 2) Thompson henchmen would not fool with ballots that did not count; 3) the city's "best people" now supporting Nominee Cermak might go golfing on Election...