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...MacArthur had abdicated a position of national leadership to become spokesman for a particular group. Some passages in his later speeches were ambiguous and inconsistent with his own basic line of thought and action. These ambiguities, plus the distortion of MacArthur by his friends of the Hearst and McCormick press, led some to conclude that MacArthur was an isolationist; others, that he was an imperialist. Both tags were absurd, yet the figure of MacArthur in U.S. life was neither as clear nor as large in December as it had been in April...
...call the Inland Empire. Bigger than New England, it is rich in wheat, minerals, apples, lumber, scenery-and atom-bomb works. The-chief bellringer and arbiter for the empire is the Spokane Spokesman-Review, a newspaper which President Truman in one of his cocky moods once paired with Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune as "worst" in the country...
Santa Fe Artist Randall Davey, who has painted such celebrities as John Galsworthy, James Forrestal and Madame Schumann-Heinle, but is better known for his race track studies, was busily putting some final strokes on another famous face: the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick...
When the Democrats left the banquet hall, the newsstands were already piled high with Tribunes carrying McCormick's counter punch. From the eminence of a Page One box (next to the report of McKinney's speech), Bertie McCormick jabbed: "The Tribune during the last two days has shown McKinney up as a crook. He has tried to muddy the water by telling lies about the Tribune...
Next morning, McKinney snapped: "McCormick's statement will be retracted, or else." The Tribune refused to retract, but it dropped its epithet "crook" in favor of "get-rich-quick boy," and settled back to survey the rift that had been made between Chicago's Democrats and the new man Harry Truman had run in to boss the National Committee...