Word: mccormick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only U. S. Presidents, kings, queens and-as despatches put it-"others of real distinction." Prince Wilhelm of Sweden was allowed to go quietly, almost unnoticed, through Chicago streets to breakfast at the Cliff Dweller's Club with Julius Rosenwald, John Tinney McCutcheon,* Samuel Insull, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick...
Upon what authority do you say that Mrs. Medill McCormick thought Mrs. Nicholas Longworth a "harurn scarum" and that Mrs. Longworth thought Mrs. McCormick a "prig...
Said Mrs. McCormick in an interview published in Ladies Home Journal last March: "I thought she [Alice] was a harum scarum. She thought I was a prig. She had burst upon the world as Princess Alice. I was a hardworking young woman in my father's office at the Senate. . . .-ED. Not Charles...
Later, after Princess Alice married the dapper Ohioan, Nicholas Longworth, who became Speaker of the House, Mrs. McCormick and Mrs. Longworth formed the friendship that is now said to be one of the strongest influences keeping Mrs. McCormick in politics. Other influences are Mrs. McCormick's unboastful estimate of her own undoubted political acumen; her experience since 1924 as Republican National Committeewoman from Illinois; and heredity. In Illinois, she will run for nomination as the protegée of well-entrenched Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, against Congressman Henry R. Rathbone who did not support Mayor Thompson...
Three years ago Mrs. McCormick was shouting from Illinois platforms against the Small-Thompson combination, which helped Charles S. Deneen take her husband's Senatorship from him shortly before he died in 1925. Her cry then was: "Turn the rascals out!" Her explanation for associating herself with Mayor Thompson, and his friend, Governor Lennington Small of Illinois, now is: "Party regularity was a Hanna creed, you know...