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...Bethlehem, Pa.,police charged picket lines around the Bethlehem Steel plant. In Chicago, strikers milled and jeered around the gates of International Harvester's McCormick plant, while people who recalled the bloody Haymarket riot of 1886, which was fought on the same spot, held their breaths. Men battled before the Harvester plant in Richmond, Ind. Strikers and police split each other's heads, fought with clubs, tear gas, pitchforks, baseball bats, brickbats. In riot's wake was a debris of hospitalized citizens, overturned autos, damaged property and partially shut defense plants...
...most remarkable friendships in the newspaper business last week went on the rocks. Rare anywhere, let alone among publishers, has been the 35-year friendship of Tory Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick and Liberal Samuel Emory Thomason. Pals at Northwestern University law school, they founded the big law firm now known as Kirkland Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis. McCormick took over management of the Chicago Tribune in 1913; Thomason followed him five years later as business manager, rose to vice president and general manager. Thomason left him in 1927, started the tabloid Chicago Times in 1929. Chicago's only New Deal...
Last fortnight the Times headlined Nazi and Italian praise of the Tribune's ("Save Our Republic") stand against the Lend-Lease Act, and published a devastating editorial attack on the Tribune's attitude.This time Friend McCormick did not follow his usual policy of ignoring Times criticism. His answer was a lead editorial titled "These Jackals Grow Too Bold." Calling the Times an inept, tottering pipsqueak sheet, the Tribune turned its contempt on "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria...
Relations between the four labor members of the board were not improved this week when A. F. of L. workers, protected by police, streamed through a C. I. O. picket line around International Harvester's McCormick plant in Chicago...
Last week, in a long, apocalyptic editorial, Colonel McCormick virtually despaired of the U. S. As bitterest gesture of all the Tribune junked its eight-plank "Platform for Illinois and Chicago" (railroad electrification, a lakefront airport, tax cuts, etc.). Replacing it was a single apoplectic plank: Save Our Republic...