Word: mccormick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given its second presentation, in Minneapolis. There last week plans were made to make it a major event. Mayor George E. Leach was to attend. Composer Bimboni, turned conductor, was working with his orchestra, when word arrived that the American Opera Society of Chicago, of which Edith Rockefeller McCormick is ardent honorary president, had voted him the David Bispham Memorial Medal for distinguished service in the furtherance of American music, that he would be awarded it this week at the Minneapolis performance...
...will last indefinitely, longer than any paper substance except parchment. A year ago Adolph S. Ochs's New York Times, leader, in many aspects, of all the journals of the land, conceived the rag paper notion and prints a limited supply each day. (See p. 7.) The Patterson-McCormick Chicago Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," felt called upon to offer a similar service to millionaire subscribers and posterity...
Only 44 of the 10,000 essays were thought worthy of the whole jury's attention. Not one was deemed worthy of even a second prize $1,000). Of the $57,000 prize money (contributed by Cyrus H. McCormick, Edward Bok, Henry Morgenthau, Bernard M. Baruch et al.), only $2,000 was awarded-for 14 third prizes ($100 each) and 30 honorable mentions...
...assured that another woman will enter Congress soon. At present there are four U. S. Congresswomen-Mrs. Florence Prag Kahn of California, Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Mrs. John W. Langley of Kentucky, Mrs. Mary P. Norton of New Jersey. The new & likely candidate is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter and widow of politicians, who wittily copied President Coolidge and "chose" to run for Republican Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois. The male voices which last week boomed Mrs. McCormick's nomination in the primary next spring and her election next autumn, came from the heights and depths...
...Rockefeller McCormick clasped her ancestral necklace of giant emeralds. Mrs. Samuel Insull donned a new black chiffon, all spangled with gold. John McCormack buttoned himself into a new dress shirt. Photographers gave their flashlight cameras a final inspection. Such things were important last week to the 3,500 Chicagoans who crowded the Auditorium Theatre for the opening of the Chicago Opera's 17th season. For some ten million others* the second act of Verdi's Traviata was the event of the evening. (Announcement: for the next twelve successive Thursday evenings the Chicago Opera will broadcast...