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This was the story that confronted President Roosevelt last week in Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's violently isolationist Chicago Tribune. It purported to be a transcript of a secret document drawn up for President Roosevelt by the high command of the U.S. Army & Navy...
There will soon be an OPA ceiling on new passenger car prices. That was the upshot of a breezy meeting held this week between OPA's Cyrus McCormick and 81 important auto dealers. But the automen were not worried. The ceiling formulas proposed were satisfactory, and nothing was said about used cars...
...Cyrus McCormick had in effect told the dealers their role in the emergency was to make all the money they could without working too hard. His general suggestions: 1) sell new cars only at full list price, 2) stop overtrading, 3) build up the service end of their business...
Died. William Grigsby McCormick, 90, retired Chicago banker, son of the late William S. McCormick, partner of the giant reaper company; near Wheaton, Ill. When he was a student at the University of Virginia he co-founded Kappa Sigma fraternity, now one of the country's four largest...
...McCormick, the isolationist scream-bomb, this was a remarkable concession. If the U.S. were to enter the war he might well make much bigger concessions in the name of patriotism-as he and his cousin Joe Patterson (now publisher of the even more successful New York Daily News) did in World War I. If the Colonel again begins whipping up fighting spirit as hotly as he now does isolation, his shift will doubtless cut some interventionist ground from under Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. But the real question of how much strength the Colonel can muster for the battle...