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...been billed as "Governor's Day," which would mean that it was in honor of handsome, white-haired Governor Dwight H. Green. But everybody in the grandstand had come to see bristling, ramrod-stiff Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, editor-publisher of the arch-nationalist Chicago Tribune. This was Bertie McCormick's day. Bertie was making his debut as unofficial commander of Illinois Republicans...
...back to Chicago Boss McCormick said a mouthful on politics. He leaned back, coatless and shirt open at the neck, gave his word on the 1948 presidential lineup. Green: "Needs to be better known. Maybe a compromise candidate. I'm not backing him." Taft: "The best candidate. He's got a great name and he's managed to eliminate most of the criticism against him." Eisenhower: "I have a great interest in him." MacArthur: "Too old to be President." Warren: "Too far west-the East can't see past Ohio." Bricker: "Out because...
Ever since Joseph Patterson's death last May, the season's most fascinating speculation among newsmen has been: will the Chicago Tribune's terrible-tempered Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick move in on Patterson's New York Daily News? (Circ...
...Kremlin showed that it has at least brains enough to know which kinds of outside criticism are most damaging, and which are least so. The Stalinists ignore, or pass off with an occasional snarl, the tirades of chronic Russophobes in the U.S. (usually lumped together as "the Hearst-Patterson-McCormick press"), knowing that their hysteria and exaggeration diminish their influence. But since Atkinson's effort was a fair-minded piece for fair-minded readers of an extremely influential paper, the Moscow puppet press exploded...
...Comrade Kravchenko," a Party bigwig warned him, "you are going to the country of the most highly developed and rapacious capitalism. The counter-espionage of the FBI is subtle and inescapable. . . . The counter-revolutionary and capitalist press, especially of Hearst and McCormick, will try to destroy your faith. . . . Do you realize the full meaning of the confidence placed...