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Skirmish. As yet, Wendell Willkie has not formally jumped into the 1944 race. He came closest last week, announcing that he would certainly enter the Illinois Presidential primary if Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick is also a candidate. (Colonel McCormick had been proposed for the nomination by a Chicago isolationist group...
...becoming a current which might easily become a tidal wave. . . . When a tide sets in in American politics, it is likely to go too far. . . . Next autumn or next year, the editor of the Gazette may be standing shoulder to shoulder with Senators Burt Wheeler and Gerald Nye, Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, and Senator Curly Brooks, jamming on the brakes and grinding the gears to slow down the millennium...
...wholly shocked to learn that any person could even suggest that the Government should be run by such men as Senator Taft, Ham Fish, Colonel McCormick, Senator Wheeler and John L. Lewis, not to mention Governor Bricker, among the greatest dispersers of nonsense in the Midwest...
...choice for U.S. President in 1944: Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune...
...America First crowd, seemed to have notified the Tribune of the meeting's prime importance, because the Tribune sent aging Arthur Evans, its top-rung reporter on local politics, to cover the meeting. The news was coyly buried on p. 3, did not mention the McCormick boom until the second paragraph...