Word: mccabe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, William Raphael McCabe, 63, a fighting editor of the old school, left his farm outside Joliet (Ill.) and headed his car for the city. It was press night for the 21st anniversary issue of his tabloid weekly Spectator-the last issue before the Illinois Republican primary. Stocky Editor McCabe, a onetime Republican state's attorney and opponent of Governor Dwight Green's machine, was a candidate for ward committeeman...
...Angeles Times; President John D. Ewing, Times Publishing Co., Ltd., Shreveport, La.; Managing Editor Lee Hills, Miami Herald; President Roy W. Howard, Scripps-Howard Newspapers; Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Denver Post; President Philip L. Jackson, Portland Journal Publishing Co.; Publisher H. G. Kern, Boston Record; Publisher Charles B. McCabe, New York Mirror; Publisher Malcolm Muir, Newsweek; Publisher Francis S. Murphy, Hartford Times; President Ralph Nicholson, New Orleans Item Co.; Publisher Paul Patterson, Baltimore Sun;, Associate Editor Robert Reed, Kansas City Star; Publisher James G. Stahlman, Nashville Banner; President John Wheeler, North American Newspaper Alliance...
Amid the cheers of bankers and brokers, Harry Truman abruptly demoted Marriner Eccles from the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board last week. In the place of old New Dealer Eccles, the President put Thomas McCabe, chairman of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, president of Scott Paper Co. (tissues). In politics, McCabe is a Republican...
Eccles' head did not roll, although his neck was bruised. Magnanimously the President offered him the vice chairmanship of the seven-man board. After wrestling with his pride, Eccles took it. He could still get in plenty of licks at his enemies. While McCabe was learning the tortuous ins & outs of the job, Eccles, the old hand, would continue to be the most influential member of FRB. Independently wealthy and doggedly independent, 57-year-old Marriner Eccles would go on working at his ideas of "capitalistic democracy." A Washington career had been punctuated but by no means ended...
...took Eccles' place was somewhere to the right of Eccles' "unorthodox" doctrines, though perhaps not as far as some loudly applauding bankers thought. Thomas McCabe went to progressive Swarthmore College. He began his career at Scott Paper Co., became a supersalesman and finally president. He has held various Washington jobs, including that of deputy lend-lease administrator. McCabe, like Eccles, is concerned about ways & means to curtail credit. He also believes that great efforts should be made to control inflation. The difference between the two may be largely one of method. Amiable, smiling Tom McCabe gets along with...