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Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, the Chicago Tribune's stiff-necked America-firstish publisher, who bravely but barely contained himself during the election campaign, unburdened himself to a Montreal newsman: "Dewey was a very weak nominee ... he ran behind practically every other Republican candidate who was elected. ... If Dewey had been elected at all he would have had to run as a nationalist. . . . The New York point of view is not the national point of view. . . . The west, which created the Republican Party, must regain control of it, and then it can come back to power. ... I do not think...
...took a historic step: they balked at the foreign policy views of a LaFollette. While Bob LaFollette sat in sullen silence at the word "enforce," Progressive platform writers endorsed a world organization "to enforce a just and democratic peace." This was a significant reversal of the LaFollette-inspired America Firstish plank adopted in May, and followed the worst licking the Wisconsin electorate ever gave the Progressivce party in a primary...
...Uncle Bertie's cousin Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the huge, America Firstish New York Daily News, Trini Barnes says: "I'm still personally fond of him . . . a nice considerate gentleman. I asked him once why he had turned his paper into what it is and he acted surprised and said he wasn't conscious of any change. I don't believe he is." Of the Captain's sister, Eleanor "Cissie" Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times Herald, end of the McCormick-Patterson party line, Mrs. Barnes says: "We seldom meet. When...
...Powerful interests" was all the hint the America-Firstish press needed. The Washington Times-Herald's British-baiting Frank C. Waldrop (whose capital dope is reverently quoted by the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News) picked up what appeared to be the ball and ran panting across several vacant lots. Lumping Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler together for firing good generals, Waldrop wrote: ". . . The fundamental question is whether our Army is to be used first for United States purposes or for the purposes of British Empire strategy General Marshall right today is out as Chief of Staff...
...familiar America-Firstish faces were there in the Mural Room of Chicago's Hotel Morrison: the furtive, snickering little women who pass around anti-Semitic postcards; the Coughlinites; the pinch-lipped, waspish old couples with gleaming eyes; the Patrick Henry Forumites; the overcorseted We the Mothers; the fanatical ragtag & bobtail of a 100% star-spangled movement...
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