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...would quit Hearst's King Features when his juicy contract expires Nov. 15. Reason: to stop the sale of his column to Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald. Cissie is the sister of Captain Joe Patterson (New York Daily News) and cousin of Colonel Robert McCormick (Chicago Tribune), and works hard to keep up with the menfolks...
...rabble-rouser, a flag-waving Billy Sunday orator who can jerk tears from any group of mothers with a recital of his own World War I experiences (wounded seven times, bemedaled thrice). He is the candidate of the Chicago Tribune's Roosevelt-hating publisher, Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick. The lank Colonel had tried vainly to get Brooks elected to high office for years, finally got him by when the State went Republican in 1940. Frizzle-haired, heavy-set Curly Brooks, like his sponsor, was one of the most violent of Isolationists before Pearl Harbor. His only opposition...
...Chicago Tribune seemed like its old self again last week: Colonel Robert McCormick was accused of treason...
...were driven from their hiding places and sent to the front where they can share some of the agony they have created." In Congress, Illinois Representative Raymond S. McKeough, the Kelly-Nash machine candidate for the Senate, hotly read the editorial in full, commented: ". . . I challenge Colonel McCormick's patriotism, and I say that that language, at this time, makes him subject, at least to thinking people, as being guilty of treason, and I so charge...
...last week a regular reader of the Tribune could see with half an eye that Colonel McCormick's blood pressure was going up fast. Four days before the "treason" editorial appeared, the Tribune ran this head on Democratic Chairman Edward J. Flynn's demand for a Democratic Congress: A SCHEME TO WRECK THE REPUBLIC...