Word: mccormick
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...getting rattled, Colonel McCormick...
...Chicago Sun led its editorial page with this laconic editorial one day last week. It was a soft answer to the dirtiest punch the Tribune's incredible Bertie McCormick had yet thrown in his bitter feud with the Sim's fairdealing Marshall Field. The Tribune, gloating over Ralph Ingersoll's "shamed" enlistment in the Army (TIME, Aug. 3), had blathered...
...under strict orders from gentlemanly Owner Field never to refer to his own or Colonel McCormick's war record, refrained from replying in kind. But Chicagoans, appalled at Colonel McCormick's loud bad manners, were eager last week to recite the bare facts...
...McCormick, now 62, joined the Illinois National Guard before the U.S. entered World War I. A friend asked IIlinois's Governor, the late Edward Dunne, for a commission for him. Dunne, who had often been roasted by the Tribune, roared: "I'll give that bastard McCormick nothing unless he runs an editorial completely repudiating everything the Tribune has said about me." The Tribune did. McCormick was commissioned a major...
...editors in Manhattan felt like taking up the cudgels for Editor Ingersoll, particularly after his attempt to try his case in his own paper. Yet all of them knew that, for better or for worse, Editor Ingersoll had given PM its character and direction-just as truly as Bertie McCormick has to the isolationist Chicago Tribune or Joe Patterson to the New York Daily News-and that to draft him was a blow at a wing of the press which also has a right to freedom and continued existence...