Word: mccormick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first: Anita Oser, daughter of Mrs. Mathilde McCormick Oser & Max Oser, Swiss (TIME...
...ecclesiastical brother-in-law of New York, the Rev. Arthur B. Churchman, gave me a year of TIME for Christmas, thus showing rare good judgment. I enjoy it almost as much as chicken giblets. Until now. Under twin standing picture of Mrs. Longworth and Mrs. McCormick in fur coats which make them look like poor girls who work in stores, issue of April 23, p. 12, re Chicago Congressmen, you refer to "the two present incumbents...
...McCormick & Patterson. The two newspapers with the largest circulations in the U. S. are the New York Daily News (daily 1,226,000, Sunday 1,416,000) and the Chicago Tribune (daily 811,000, Sunday 1,167,000). The first, a tabloid, is the offspring of the second. Both are published by Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, 47, and Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, 49. Col. McCormick devotes most of his time to the Tribune, while Capt. Patterson's chief interest is the Daily News...
Meanwhile, young McCormick was studying law, dabbling in politics, getting married, emerging from the War a colonel...
From the time that they first began to wiggle pencils, Cousins McCormick & Patterson knew that the Tribune was waiting for them. They took over the reins of editorship in 1914, and after the War their whip cracked loudly, domineeringly. The morning field in Chicago had been cut down to two newspapers: the Tribune and the Hearst-owned Herald and Examiner.* In a circulation war which culminated in the distribution of nearly $1,000,000 worth of "lucky number" coupons, both newspapers distinguished themselves in bad taste and the Tribune achieved a domination which has never since been threatened. Andy...