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...Three Furies of the isolationist press increased their howls. In Chicago, Robert ("Bertie") McCormick's Tribune bombarded the Midwest with isolationist propaganda, screamed: "The 80 per cent of our people who are Americans undefiled by foreign seductions must bring their influence to bear on Congress and the Executive." Cousins Joe Patterson (New York Daily News) and Eleanor Patterson (Washington Times-Herald) ground out their daily gripes at the risks involved in the Administration's policy of trying to stop Hitler...
...claims that "80% of the American people are against our going into the war." It began: "You remember the old gag: 'Figures don't lie-but liars sometimes figure.' " The 80% claim has been pushed particularly by the Chicago Tribune, published by her cousin Colonel Robert McCormick, and the New York Daily News, published by her father...
...tabloid PM. He said that he and "a group of friends" had definitely decided to go ahead with their plan. The one friend whom Field named*; was Silliman Evans, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean-an experienced publisher who may be capable of tangling successfully with Colonel Robert McCormick of the Tribune...
...paper's policy is to be one of unequivocal opposition to McCormick and isolationism. As prospective readers it already has 100,000 people whose names were collected by the Fight for Freedom Committee which, two months ago, at a big Chicago rally, launched a Tribune boycott, started a movement to "end the un-American monopoly now enjoyed by the Chicago Tribune." But it will doubtless have to fight for them in a costly, rough-&-tumble circulation war such as Colonel McCormick had three decades ago with Hearst...
...anybody can rout Colonel McCormick in Chicago, Silliman Evans is a good candidate...