Word: mccormick
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Abeam with good humor, the Chicago Tribune's baronial Colonel Robert McCormick last week let his 3,000 employes in on a happy secret...
...first to congratulate the writer of the Colonel McCormick piece in the Dec. 1 issue of TIME. This was not only excellent writing but it was a highly justified portrayal of a journalistic nincompoop for whom an adequate cussing-out has been long overdue...
When Japan attacked the U.S. this week, suddenly and without warning, the Tribune story looked very dead indeed. Dead, too, was the specter of war which Colonel McCormick had waved before the Midwest for the last two years, laid by a menace far more grim and real...
Peace on Earth. What excited Chicago was the prospect of epic and maybe head-busting battle between the Sun and Colonel McCormick's ferocious Tribune, backed on both sides by all that millions...
...newspaper war began. Night before the first issue Sun Circulation Manager Jack Stenbuck, a big, picturesque ex-Hearstman with the appearance of a well-dressed pirate, called 150 truck drivers into conference. A good part of them were Hearst veterans and well remembered the slugging days when "McCormick used to put it on us." Said Circulation Manager Stenbuck...