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...great publishing House of Patterson-McCormick, and of no other, it could be said with certainty last week that it was about to help elect a President of the U. S. Reason: Partner Joseph Medill Patterson, as boss of the House's New York News (circulation: 1,600,000), has given Franklin Roosevelt the wholehearted support of the nation's biggest newspaper; Partner Robert Rutherford McCormick, as boss of the House's Chicago Tribune (circulation: 784,000), has made the nation's second biggest newspaper its most rabid anti-Roosevelt sheet. In a Presidential campaign...
Observed a critic of the Capitalist press in the radical New Masses last week: "The [New York] Daily News, pro-Roosevelt, pro-NRA, is utterly insincere. The proof? It is owned by the McCormick Chicago Tribune...
...regular Republican dailies Democrat Roosevelt gets his biggest brickbats from the Chicago Tribune and its Carey Cassius Orr. The Tribune's famed, aging John Tinney McCutcheon finds Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's rabid anti-New Dealism distasteful, ventures no further into politics than an occasional (Continued on p. 16) jest on the disparity of straw votes (TIME, Aug. 3). Gruff, one-eyed Cartoonist Orr does not hate Franklin Roosevelt either, simply considers him "despicable like a snake." He likes to picture the President as a Red, a would-be Hitler, a gorilla-like monster of Fear, Doubt...
...Issue originated when New Deal haters like Publishers William Randolph Hearst and Robert R. McCormick exploited the fact that U. S. Communists had decided to concentrate their efforts this year on defeating Franklin Roosevelt's Republican opponent as the greater of two political evils. The issue was dignified when President Roosevelt took notice of Publisher Hearst's fulminations by issuing, over White House Secretary Early's signature, an angry blast at a "certain notorious newspaper publisher" (TIME, Sept. 28). It was further inflated when Republican National Chairman Hamilton took up Publisher Hearst's cry that...
Ford & Future. Republican Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick has been experimenting with soybeans on the Chicago Tribune's farm at Yorkville, Ill., astounded his readers last spring by expressing approval of Democratic Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace when the Department sponsored a laboratory soybean farm at the University of Illinois. The No. 1 U. S. soybean man is Henry Ford. His reason: "If we want the farmer to be our customer, we must find a way to be his customer...