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Marshall Field had taken a hard look at a set of hard facts. No. 1: circulation had shrunk 40,000 (to 335,000) in the three months since he raised his price to a nickel. (But Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Tribune, still 3?, was rocking along at a 1,100,000-a-day clip.) No. 2: newsprint, $61 a year ago, had gone up to $85 a ton. No. 3: hard-headed John S. Knight, whose Daily News is the Sun's landlord, had raised the rent $800,000 a year. (The late Daily News Publisher Frank...
...Archibald MacLeish, poet and ex-Librarian of Congress; George D. Stoddard, president of the University of Illinois; Arthur H. Compton, chancellor of Washington University (St. Louis); Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times. Alternates: Chester Bowles, ex-OPA Administrator; Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College; Charles S. Johnson, president-elect of Fisk University (see below); George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College; Anna Rosenberg of OWMR...
...course, as the Union League prophets knew, the undiscriminating sun would shine on all Republicans. The Chicago Tribune's isolationist Robert McCormick would bask in it. But the Democratic sun had warmed the backs of even stranger interlopers. This was one of the unpleasant and confusing results of a two-party system...
...British muscled in on Chicago last week. In the heart of Anglophobe Colonel Robert McCormick's bustling bailiwick they set up a loan exhibition of 62 of Britain's best paintings, by Hogarth, Constable, and Turner. The British Ambassador, Lord Inverchapel, was on hand at Chicago's Art Institute to open the show with a suitably democratic address. Said he: "[These] painters . . . are all of the humble English earth; very earthy, simple folk, men of the people...
...Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune, whose Anglophobia extends to a deliberate ignoring of titles, duly mentioned it as "Ambassador Clark Kerr's" speech...