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Last week, the Democrats contributed a cartoon showing Governor Dewey speaking from a platform that concealed a fatuous-looking cellar gang. Included in the gang was Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the news-slanting Chicago Tribune, and cousin of Daily News Publisher Joe Patterson. Captain Patterson forthwith called off the Battle Page. His reasons: below-the-belt hitting, fear of libel...
...Easily outstanding as the "newspaper . . . most flagrant in angling or weighting the news to suit its own editorial opinions": Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Roosevelt-hating Chicago Tribune...
Reported New York Times Correspondent Anne O'Hare McCormick from Rome last week: "A story is going the rounds of a lanky, soft-voiced Texan in a large group of soldiers received by the Pope in a recent audience. First in line, he didn't quite know what to do when the Holy Father offered his ring to be kissed. So he shook the Pontiff's outstretched hand and said politely, as nice boys do in Texas, 'Hi yah, Mister Pope...
...breezy, crusading, pro-Roosevelt Times, celebrated its 15th birthday last week by announcing that it had topped the Chicago Daily News in circulation for the first time (429,319 to 427,621 daily average in August). It also celebrated by gleefully reviving a triumph over its archfoe, Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune...
Marshall Field's Chicago Sun announced last week that it will henceforth print a box score of Colonel McCormick's hates. First box showed that on Sept. 6 the Tribune carried ten "hate" stories against President Roosevelt and the Administration; two against Sidney Hillman, the C.I.O. and P.A.C.; none against Hitler and the Nazis; none against Hirohito and the Japs...