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...Adrian Delano, uncle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gave Dr. DeLee's pinched institution a big fillip by taking an interest that has never flagged. Dr. DeLee subsequently delivered four of Mr. Delano's grandchildren. Other high-born "DeLee babies": Alice Roosevelt Longworth's Paulina; Ruth Hanna McCormick's (Simms's) Katrina, Medill, Ruth. Such clientele helped Dr. DeLee prosper personally to such an extent that he could give Lying-in Hospital his check for $55,000 during a money-raising campaign. The Hospital is now affiliated with the University of Chicago. Dr. DeLee...
...Committee on Freedom of the Press, under the guidance of rampant, liberty-loving Publisher Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, labored long & noisily to bring forth four thundering resolutions...
From Minnesota Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson promptly cracked back: "If Colonel McCormick would devote his efforts to promoting free speech for people who are seeking social justice . . . and stop devoting his talents to the defense of his fellow muckrakers, he would live down his present reputation as a journalistic faker...
...that official's honest, mildly progressive administration; 2) disapproval of Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and his ruthless Cook County political machine. A vote for Candidate Herman Niels Bundesen might mean: 1) approval of Mayor Kelly and party patronage; 2) attachment to Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune, which threw its arch-Republican influence behind Boss Kelly's candidate...
...Horner could win. But excitement was high because more hung on the primary than the fate of Horner and the Kelly machine. Two more big pins in the cat's cradle of Illinois politics are Colonel Knox, publisher of Chicago's Daily News and Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of Chicago's Tribune. Both men and both sheets are Republican. Both are interested in the gubernatorial fights in both parties. Both are at swords' points on all points. The News has attacked vice and misrule under the Kelly regime in Chicago. The Tribune has supported Mayor...