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Politically, they were often farther apart than Chicago and New York. While Bertie McCormick loosed isolationist and reactionary thunderbolts from his Midwestern stronghold, Joe Patterson won a reputation as a liberal (liberals were also isolationists then...
After that outburst, he retired to a farm, spent four years pounding out proletarian novels and three plays. In 1910, his father's death sent him back to the Tribune, by family command, to settle down as an unwilling partner of austere Bertie McCormick...
After 1925, when he moved to New York, Joe Patterson and Bertie McCormick divided the Medill dynasty into two spheres. Their profits ran as high as $10,000,000 a year. They split the income with Cissie Patterson and Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms. Together they founded Liberty magazine, ran up a $14 million loss in seven years, sold...
With World War II, the Patterson & McCormick lines began to converge. The Daily News's breezy, colloquial editorials began to shout against "intervention," and for America First. (Joe's rebellious daughter Alicia Patterson Guggenheim shouted right back in her interventionist tabloid, the Hempstead, L.I. Newsday.) In 1940 Patterson, who often pecked out his editorials for himself, urged the U.S. to "warm up to Japan." The News stopped its appeasing during the war, but for a year it has been giving F.D.R. a posthumous whipping for getting the U.S. into...
...Both the Tribune and the Daily News are corporate children of the Tribune Co. The Medill Trust, of which Patterson and McCormick were the sole trustees, controls a bare majority of the shares...