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...Except the Detroit Daily, traded to Patterson & McCormick as part payment for Liberty...
...years ago the publishers had no squeamishness about having the sheet called a "tabloid." Only because of the Manhattan Daily News and Boston Record did the U. S. reading public know that such things as condensed newspapers existed. But in the ensuing decade the tabloids of Hearst, Macfadden, Patterson & McCormick performed startling exploits, created for the word "tabloid'' a special meaning of loudness, blatancy, sexationalism...
When a speaker made an unbearably fatuous remark, Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette muttered "spinach." Little Publisher Roy Howard and his bearded partner Robert Scripps muttered nothing but laughed a great deal. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick rarely got to the Convention, busied himself writing scary front-page editorials for his Chicago Tribune. One, titled "Half Bolshevik; Half Free," concluded with: "Unless we have, in Lincoln's phrase, a new birth of freedom, the death of our civilization is near at hand...
...nomination of Herbert Hoover; Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, sister-in-law of Michigan's football coach, directed the women's division of the national committee; Sarah Schuyler Butler was a New York delegate with her father Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler; even Ruth Hanna McCormick, born to politics, came as the bride of onetime Congressman Albert Gallatin Simms of New Mexico. Mesdames F. Trubee Davison, Walter Evans Edge, James Wadsworth, Bertrand Hollis Snell chiefly came to have...
Long before anyone was aware of her ability as an artist, Mrs. McCormick was recognized as an experienced horsewoman She is a Master of Hounds (the Du Page Hunt near her place at Wheaon), rides every day. In winter she and the Colonel go to Aiken where she hunts, he plays polo. Interested in other art work than her own, she has in her Chicago town house what is considered one of the finest collections of Moderns...