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...better days, J. M. Patterson and R. R. McCormick offered a prize of $25,000 for the winning title of a magazine they were preparing, and they paid the money to somebody for the name Liberty. TIME [May 17] now announces that [TIME, Inc.] will publish a weekly covering sports, and that it has not yet been titled. For anything from $25,000 down-but anything-may I suggest that this new publication be named SWEAT...
...luncheon given by Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, a new group, firm in their old belief that foreign entanglements are dangerous, banded themselves into "For America," an outfit which will "combat super-internationalism, one-worldism and Communism in America." Cochairmen: General Robert E. Wood, retired board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and onetime head of America First; Clarence E. Manion, ex-dean of Notre Dame's law school, whose resignation as chairman of the President's Commission on Intergovernmental Relations was forced after he began ballyhooing the Bricker Amendment (TIME, Feb. 8). Among other For Americans...
...running the paper as well as of her divorce and her interest in a T-H editor, whom she later married. Bazy Tankersley, shocked to hear that the paper was to be sold, asked time to try to raise money to buy the Times-Herald herself. McCormick gave her exactly 45 hours. One of the possible backers she called was William...
...merger will not change the Post's editorial policies or its basic format. While it has taken on some Times-Herald features, including a weekly column by Maryland McCormick, the colonel's wife (TIME, March 8), it has already dropped from the new combined paper such features as Columnist Westbrook Pegler and sensational, slapdash Labor Columnist Victor Riesel. Graham expects relatively clear sailing ahead. Said he: "(Buying the TH) was the culmination of Eugene Meyer's effort for the Post for over 20 years...
...down payment of $1,500,000 and the balance by the end of the year. The Post gets the entire physical property of the Times-Herald, will sell its presses to the Chicago Tribune for about $1,500,000. It also gets possession of Colonel McCormick's $130,000 Washington home and takes on the responsibility of paying close to $750,000 in severance pay to the Times-Herald employees who do not get jobs working on the Post...