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...Chicago Daily News and Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. Getting it, he graciously accepted the draft. If he wins the Democratic primary, he will fight it out next November with the G.O.P.'s handsome, grey Governor Dwight Green, able, amiable yes-man of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune. The New Dealish Sun gave a well-modulated cheer: "[Courtney] has an opportunity to spearhead a fighting campaign to rescue Illinois from ... the G.O.P.'s worst tory-isolationists...
...abusive language ... at people whose economic and political views differ from his own. . . . The Vice President of the United States, if anybody, ought to learn to weigh his words. . . ." At week's end Mr. Wallace consented to name one of the American Fascists he meant: Colonel Robert R. McCormick of Chicago. But no one, not even the Chicago Tribune, thought that Colonel McCormick was "safely sitting on top of the country...
...recent months Field had listened less to Evans and more to outsiders who wanted the Sun to get in there and scrap with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's archconservative Tribune. Fortnight ago, after Evans' financial columnist, pompous Philip S. Hanna, had labeled the federal ballot for soldiers "a trick to dodge the Constitution," Hanna was summarily fired by Field...
...sold out his rubber and shoe interests and bought control of McCormick's, Ltd., a candy and biscuit maker of London, Ont. Within three years he was fighting British-controlled George Weston, Ltd. for the Canadian market. Upshot: Weston bought McCormick's, Ltd. but kept Cummings...
Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, mighty Chicago Anglophobe, described a honey of a plan he had helped work out to defend the U.S. from invasion by the British-after World War I. He told Cleveland's City Club about a scheme "to establish a line about 40 miles long across the isthmus between Lakes Huron and Erie which would protect Detroit" from a possible army "of 300,000 regulars [from] England" which would be "landed in Canada and marched against this country." The Colonel explained that he had worked out the plan with the American General Staff. Added...