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...Chicago Tribune is not demonstrably, as it boasts, the "World's Greatest Newspaper," it is at least ambitious, enterprising. Months ago it was learned that Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick proposed to introduce color-printing in his daily editions. Lately have appeared Tribune advertisements with two colors at a time worked into them. Last week the colorful Tribune of the future was again sharply foreshadowed to its 813,708 readers by the appearance of a colored cartoon on the Tribune's big bold front page...
...Mount Pleasant, N. Y. on the estate of Mrs, Harold Fowler McCormick Jr. ("Fifi" Stillman), a pack of hungry dogs attacked a herd of sheep, slew 18. Extra guards were posted around the neighboring estate of Mr. McCormick's grandfather, John Davison Rockefeller...
...expenditures rose from $3.546,826,897 to $4,559,931,993. Under Presi dent Hoover, shrewd economist, the Treasury's cash outlay climbed to $4,951,160,738 in 1931. Typical of widespread popular exasperation with Federal costs was a speech made last week by loud Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, editor & publisher of the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"). Angrily cried...
Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Tribune replied: "Well, that's your affair, Emory. But of course I'll do everything I can to protect my circulation. We can't let sentiment stand...
What Publisher Thomason was going ahead with was a plan to abandon the unprofitable Saturday edition of his evening tabloid and publish instead a Sunday edition. Why did he bother to talk it over with Publisher McCormick, with whose Sunday Tribune he would compete, and not with Publisher Homer Guck of Hearst's Herald & Examiner with which he would also compete? Because Publisher Thomason was for nine years vice president and general manager of the Tribune. On the walls of Publisher Thomason's office (in the old Market Street plant where the defunct Journal used to be published...