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...which Anton Joseph Cermak's death had left in the party organization. As expected, 70-year-old Patrick Austin Nash got the job as well as Cermak's place on the Democratic National Committee. A crony of the late Mayor and of Illinois Governor Henry Horner, he has been chairman of the Cook County Democratic Committee since 1931. Irish and crafty, always in a derby, he got his political education in the old school, under the late Boss Roger H. Sullivan...
...City National), Solomon Smith (Northern Trust), Howard Fenton (Harris Trust), Charles G. Dawes and their fellows. Theirs were similar problems: $350,000,000 had been drawn from the Chicago banks in two weeks, much of it by banks in neighboring territory where the banking disease was bad. Governor Henry Horner of Illinois sat with them till 5 p.m., then retired to the Congress Hotel to sleep. At 1:45 a.m. he was aroused by telephone and taxied back to the Reserve Bank on South LaSalle Street. Shortly afterward a long distance telephone call announced that Governor Lehman had declared...
...company, expanded into real estate and politics. A favorite candidate around the stockyards, he rose to be President of the Cook County Commissioners. His defeat of Republican William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson for Mayor in 1931 made him Democratic boss of Chicago. Last year's election of Henry Horner as his candidate for Governor made him Democratic boss of Illinois, a national party power. He was the second "World's Fair" Mayor of Chicago to be assassinated.* At his death Florida swiftly indicted Zangara for first-degree murder...
...being restrained, forcibly or otherwise, from participating in the sale. At Deshler, Ohio, a $400 debt was extinguished last week for $2.15. At Malinta, in the same State, a large noose was ominously suspended from Albert Roehl's barn to scare off outside bidders. Illinois' Governor Horner got a telegram reading "We are face to face with anarchy" from a Monticello mortgage broker who collected $4.90 on a $2,500 claim. At Cherokee, Okla. an attorney for Equitable Life was driven ten miles out of town and dumped from a deputy sheriff's automobile when he started...
Illinois. From Chicago to Springfield Democrat Henry Horner, bachelor, took his own male cook and valet. On the probate bench for 18 years he won wide acclaim for his efficient management of estates. Governor Horner plumes himself on having one of the world's largest private Lincoln libraries...