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...declared the U.S. Patent Commissioner, Henry L. Ellsworth, in 1844. Men were still goggle-eyed over the recent invention of Morse's telegraph, Howe's sewing machine, Goodyear's vulcanized rubber, McCormick's reaper. Many agreed with Ellsworth that science must be near the end of its rope...
Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, the Chicago Tribune's stiff-necked America-firstish publisher, who bravely but barely contained himself during the election campaign, unburdened himself to a Montreal newsman: "Dewey was a very weak nominee ... he ran behind practically every other Republican candidate who was elected. ... If Dewey had been elected at all he would have had to run as a nationalist. . . . The New York point of view is not the national point of view. . . . The west, which created the Republican Party, must regain control of it, and then it can come back to power. ... I do not think...
...internationalist-minded audience heartily booed the isolationist names including the McCormick, Patterson, Gannett and Hearst press...
...things which Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick have in common is their headmaster. As prep-school boys both stood-and perhaps still stand, a little-in awe of the most famed U.S. headmaster of his generation: the founder of small, ultra-swank Groton School. Endicott Peabody, a living legend at 87, retired from Groton's headmastership in 1940-to a new house just off the campus. Last week he received his first full-length biography, Peabody of Groton (Coward McCann; $5), based in large part on his persistent and prodigious correspondence...
Black Terms. In short, the U.S. had to make good suddenly on its Four Freedoms money. Why? Month ago, the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick wrote: "The money situation [in Italy] is a nightmare. . . . It worries . . . the Allied commissions even more than the shortages of food." Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare reported: "Italy's financial condition can hardly be described in black enough terms." The black terms: Italy's national debt, now more than 650 billion lire, is still soaring. Bank notes in circulation have doubled since the Allied invasion...