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...There is about as much chance of the Solid South going Republican in 1944 as of Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune turning New Dealer. I hereby proffer and promise to swim from Key West to Cuba, and tow a loaded barge in the bargain, if so many as three states of the South go Republican next year...
...promptly wrote "old veteran" into his first piece of copy, survived, and was offered a staff job at $12 a week. He rejected it, switched to the Chicago Tribune and became a regular reporter Bilious Bertie. It is at this stage that the Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick first appears, never to be ab sent again for more than a few chapters...
Hoover Is Hoover. Apart from a chance meeting in Paris with Colonel McCormick, Ickes' war experience as a Y.M.C.A. field man was not unpleasant...
Madame Chiang Kai-shek hopped from Manhattan to Chicago, spoke to a jampacked crowd in Chicago Stadium, got the key of the city from Mayor Kelly, $100,000 for China war relief from Harvester Heiress Mrs. Emmons (Anita McCormick) Blaine, headed West...
...Labor Follows brought in a ringer in the person of John G. Dunlop, one of their instructors, but the appointment of Mac McCormick, Nieman Fellow, was some compensation for the journalists...