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...filled rooms, defying the will of the people. Tom Dewey's shrewd managers could either afford to sit tight, or had been ordered to, or both. And they did. They staged no preconvention banquets or band concerts. Dewey's No. 1 feminine supporter, tall, grey Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, occupied inconspicuous basement quarters next to the Blackstone Hotel men's washroom. And the Dewey Triumvirate-Jaeckle, Sprague and Brownell-held court in businesslike fashion in a plain and bannerless 25th-floor suite, until Dewey's nomination was cinched...
Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune has never tired of telling the U.S. to steer clear of foreign entanglements, especially with the British. Last week the Colonel had a new reason for his old scunner against the Empire...
...reason the tabloid News has the biggest U.S. circulation (2,004,000 daily and 3,700,000 on Sunday), according to Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's editorial, is that people approve of its "America First" line. Joe Patterson drew the same conclusion about his cousin Bertie McCormick's mighty Chicago Tribune and his sister Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. He noted that they were tops in circulation in their cities, too. Said the News...
...These three [Patterson-McCormick-Patterson] newspapers' editorial policies on domestic affairs have differed from time to time [the News was once pro-New Deal]. Their policies on foreign affairs have not differed importantly. Those policies have been and are slanted toward what we believe to be the best interests of the American people-America first, to use a phrase which various global thinkers have done their best to bring into disrepute...
...would buy the fat, conservative Indianapolis Star with its morning (circ. 128,959) and Sunday (circ. 189,963) monopoly? Since the death, six months ago, of the paper's owner-publisher, John Charles Shaffer, various buyers have been mentioned: Marshall Field, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, the Cowles brothers of Des Moines and Minneapolis, Roy Wilson Howard...