The Mayor of Shantytown

The Mayor of Shantytown
Author: Richard Gazarik
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2019-02-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 147667339X

Father James R. Cox became the voice of Pittsburgh's poor and jobless during the worst years of the Great Depression. Long lines of needy people were showing up daily at St. Patrick's Church in the city's historic Strip District but Cox turned no one away. He served more than two million meals to the hungry and was the "mayor" of a shantytown of homeless men. In 1932, Cox led one of the first mass marches on Washington, D.C., confronting President Herbert Hoover in a face-to-face White House meeting. He later ran for president himself on the Jobless Party ticket--a quixotic campaign that ended in the deserts of New Mexico. Father Cox's reputation as a humanitarian was ruined after he barely escaped a mail fraud conviction for running a rigged fundraising contest.

Through the Mayors' Eyes

Through the Mayors' Eyes
Author: Michael F. Rizzo
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1411637577

A biographical history of the mayors who held office throughout the history of Buffalo, New York, arranged chronologically by years in office.

Ottawa

Ottawa
Author: Jeff Keshen
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2001-05-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 2760315703

Ottawa - Making a Capital is a collection of 24 never-before published essays in English and in French on the history of Ottawa. It brings together leading historians, archeologists and archivists whose work reveals the rich tapestry of the city. Pre-contact society, French Canadian voyageurs, the early civil service, the first labour organizers and Jewish peddlers are among the many fascinating topics covered. Readers will also learn about the origins of local street names, the Great Fire of 1900, Ottawa's multicultural past, the demise of its streetcar system, Ottawa's transformation during the Second World War and the significance of federal government architecture. This book is an indispensable collection for those interested in local history and the history of Canada's capital.

The Five Weeks of Giuseppe Zangara

The Five Weeks of Giuseppe Zangara
Author: Blaise Picchi
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-02
Genre: Assassins
ISBN: 9780897334952

In Miami, Florida, on February 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, an unemployed bricklayer from Italy, fired five pistol shots at the back of President-elect FDR's head from only 25 feet away. While all five rounds missed their target, one of them found Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, who died of his wound three weeks later. A scant two weeks after that, Zangara was executed in the electric chair. It was the swiftest legal execution in twentieth-century American history. With his death, Zangara took to the grave the answer to one of the most baffling unsolved mysteries in the annals of Presidential assassinations. Was FDR Zangara's real target? Or was he a mob hitman who actually intended to kill Cermak, as Walter Winchell believed? Was he a terrorist, as the LA police contended? Could he have been a member of La Camorra, as the prison warden insisted? Was he simply insane, as many at the time thought? Or was he really a martyr for the cause of the Common Man, as he himself proclaimed?