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Colonel Bertie McCormick forthwith denounced Dirksen as a stalking-horse for Willkie. This seemed a little naive of the Colonel. True, Mr. Willkie called Mr. Dirksen "a fine fellow." But 35 of the 36 Dirksen petitioners are anti-Willkie. And Dirksen is a leader of the Congressional farm bloc. In effect, all this meant that a new group had arisen-and from the all-important Middle West-to stop Wendell Willkie...
...thereupon came out with these headlines: LABOR ASSAILS TRIBUNE SMEAR and TRIBUNE LIES. . . . Said the Sun: The Tribune's campaign was a "rotten and reckless piece of work ... a giant fake" born of the "fevered delusions and prejudices" of the Tribune's "hate-filled" Publisher Robert R. McCormick...
When such things start Publisher McCormick breathing through his mustache, there is no telling where the Tribune's fist will fall next: it may even hit the King of England. This time it was the New York press...
Roosevelt and Realism. When President Roosevelt was asked recently by the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick what he would say to Stalin, he replied that "to begin with he would announce that he was a realist and intended to discuss the problems that had to be dealt with in common on the basis of realism...
Received: a letter; by Bertie McCormick; from: Wisconsin's ambitious ex-Governor Philip Fox La Follette, a lieutenant colonel in General MacArthur's personal entourage. Mailing point: MacArthur's headquarters; contents: enthusiasm about the Chicago Tribune's enthusiasm for MacArthur in 1944. Most notable sentence: "Perhaps some day some of us here can put our oar in back home and lend a helping hand...