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...fully disabled by a blow to the chin before sixty bullets left the revolvers of armed bodyguards to pepper his body. From all reports he could have been tied up, taken to jail, and given a fair trial. Courts act quickly in such cases. This is what happened to Zangara, the would-be assassin of President Roosevelt, and to the slayers of Garfield and McKinley; yet the scene in the Louisiana state capitol resembled the settling of accounts between rival gangs...
...Miami the guest of honor was Carpenter Thomas Armour, who grappled for Assassin Guiseppe Zangara's revolver in Bay Front Park two years ago. Price of admission to the ball held at Kealakekua, Territory of Hawaii, was $1. A ringside table at the Colony Club celebration in Tampa cost $250. A feature of the holiday at Mt. Carmel, Ill. was a contest to decide who was the town's most unpopular citizen. A triple wedding was solemnized at the Monroe, Wis. affair...
...Russian recognition; prints President Roosevelt's picture 18 times. The book borrows frequently and happily from the omnipresent newsreels, more frequently but less happily from plate photographers. Rivers and dams, airviewed and minuscule, announce the Tennessee Valley Administration; nine scenes in Russia herald its recognition. Good shots: Assassin Zangara looking pleased with the headlines; a laughing lynch-crowd in California; empty freight-cars in a yard. Grisly shot: the naked, charred body of Negro Warner, lynched & burned near St. Joseph...
...cruise from Hyde Park to Washington. It was so the February before when the Nourmahal carried Franklin Roosevelt through the fish-filled waters of the Gulf Stream to give him rest before taking up his duties in Washington. After that cruise, when the party returned to Miami, Madman Joe Zangara emptied his revolver at the President-Elect, mortally felled Mayor Cermak of Chicago who stood beside his car. In the car behind sat Vincent Astor, Raymond Moley and Frederic Kernochan. A few moments before as the cars crept through the throng Mr. Astor had said to the others...
...Lilienthal to be Tennessee Valley Authority directors; Pennsylvania's Carroll Miller, brother-in-law of Demo-cratic Boss "Joe" Guffey, to be an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. ¶A White House caller last week was pretty Margaret Kruis, who was wounded in the head last February when Joe Zangara attempted to assassinate the President-elect at Miami. President Roosevelt recalled that he had visited Miss Kruis at the hospital after the shooting, found her greatly upset because some of her hair had been snipped off to reach the wound. ¶All in one day last week the following members...