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Month ago Illinois's kinky-haired Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks and Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune dredged up out of oblivion a ready-made Republican candidate for Mayor of Chicago: jovial, burly Roger Faherty (TIME, Jan. 4). His hour was brief: last week Roger Faherty was back in oblivion again...
...heavy (225 lb.), white-maned George Baldwin McKibbin, State Director of Finance. It was the first time the two had met. Mr. Faherty was politely told that he was being replaced by Mr. McKibbin. (There had, in the meantime, been an all-important telephone call to Colonel McCormick, who apparently approved.) Said George McKibbin later: "Mr. Faherty was a perfect peach...
...finally, what better recommendation can a man have than that Colonel McCormick, of Chicago and the Tribune, does not like...
Illinois (58): "When he comes to Illinois, Wendell Willkie is a politician without a party. The Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick, who probably has more to say than any other man about Illinois G.O.P. policy and candidates, hates...
...encourage his brand of democracy "both in England and here," the Chicago Tribune's publisher, Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, resolved several weeks ago to cease using nobility titles in the Tribune "wherever the use can be avoided. . . . There may be some slips... . Copyreaders may find their work is as tedious as picking bird shot out of a prairie chicken...