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Last week Colonel R. R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune achieved what many a citizen had deemed next to impossible: It achieved new highs of isolationist frenzy...
...page advertisement: THE TRIBUNE ACCEPTS THE CHALLENGE. The "challenge" was such criticism as that voiced at an anti-Tribune indignation meeting in Chicago (TIME, Aug. 11). The ad reproduced four anti-Tribune leaflets and petitions urging a boycott of the Tribune, a new Chicago morning paper, etc. Roared Publisher McCormick: "The Tribune welcomes the attacks of Communists and all others who object to publication of the truth...
...often does a mass meeting attack a newspaper but last week such a mass meeting was held in Chicago. The enemy it rallied against was Chicago's dominant morning newspaper, the all-powerful Tribune and its autocratic, arch-isolationist publisher, Colonel Robert McCormick...
Chief speaker was ex-Tribune Foreign Correspondent Edmond Taylor (The Strategy of Terror), a shrewd expert on Nazi fifth-columning, whose subject was What Is Wrong with the Chicago Tribune? Characterizing Colonel McCormick's editorial policy as "criminal nonsense," Taylor coupled the Tribune with Wheeler and Lindbergh as "dirty fighters who are using the political equivalent of poison...
...Illinois, Colonel Patterson's cousin, multimillionaire Isolationist Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, simultaneously conducted a poll in his Chicago Tribune on the same question. Of 257,484 post cards mailed to every tenth voter, 77,229 (30%) answered: Yes (for war), 14,176, or 18.36%; No (against war), 62,394, or 80.79%. These figures checked almost exactly with Dr. Gallup's month-by-month poll of Illinois sentiment. Obvious conclusion: Colonel McCormick would have saved thousands of dollars by reading Dr. Gallup's polls, which regularly appear in the rival Chicago Daily News...