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...Washington Times-Herald, 29-year-old Editor Ruth Miller has faithfully echoed her Uncle Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune blasts against the "slaughter" in Korea. Last week "Bazy" Miller fired a broadside all her own. Across two columns of Page One, she spread a letter from an anonymous "soldier-husband" to his wife that told a chilling story of the "horror that was the Hungnam evacuation-the American Dunkirk...
July. In Memphis, Mrs. Louise McCormick, charged with reckless driving, told the court she thought at the time that her uncle was driving...
...Senate. "I agree with many of the general principles he states," said Ohio's Bob Taft, now a prime molder of G.O.P. foreign policy in the Senate. Indiana's 100% Isolationist Homer Capehart rejoiced: "I agree with Mr. Hoover 100%." "The people are with him," proclaimed Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune. (Its enthusiasm barely exceeded that of the Communist Party's Daily Worker, which appreciatively turned over its big headline type to Hoover's speech...
...Tribune" said Colonel McCormick, "we have only modest claims to make." In Cook County's frantic sheriff race said Bertie, "we made the fight that beat 'Tubbo' [Police Capt. Daniel A. Gilbert] and elected [John E.] Babb. Also, we carried Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, California, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Not bad. We carried Michigan for all of the ticket but [Harry F.] Kelly [the G.O.P. candidate in the still-disputed governor's race], and carried all of the state for him except C.I.O. Detroit and the upper peninsula, which, without railroad mail service from Chicago, is lacking...
...colonel was willing to share some of the credit for putting in the winners. He dealt out a bit of it to the Trib's kissing-cousins, the New York Daily News and Washington Times-Herald. "When we purchased the Times-Herald," said McCormick, "it was not for political reasons, but it gave us an opportunity to take Americanism into the national capital." Niece Bazy Miller, the Times-Herald's editor, was making the most of her opportunity. Said Uncle Bertie: "The Shenandoah Valley, from which her great-grandfather came, is filling up with Republicans...