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Last week Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick appeared before the Senate Campaign Expenditure Committee to reveal that she had spent, almost entirely out of her own pocket, $252,572 to win the Republican senatorial nomination in Illinois in last month's primary against Senator Charles Samuel Deneen (TIME, April 21). Senator Deneen's expenditures, he said, were $24,493. Tapping a file of vouchers two inches thick, Senate Nominee McCormick cited as examples of her expenses: printing, $26,000; mailing, $20,881; county organizations, $107,518; postage, $12,432; "colored department," $8,090; newspaper advertising...
...primary morning Mrs. McCormick voted at her country home at Byron, then hurried to Chicago where with many a hug and kiss she was met by her good friend Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the House Speaker.? When that evening returns showed she had carried the State, including Chicago, she announced: " I feel sobered by my victory. ... I would be less than human if I were not highly pleased." From Idaho's Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and also an opponent of the World Court, came a telegram: I HAVE A VACANCY ON MY COMMITTEE...
Next day Senate Nominee McCormick traveled back to Washington where other women members of the House greeted her with applause, roses, waving flags. She called on President Hoover, World Court advocate, emerged to declare...
...well pointed Wet-&-Dry contest between Mrs. McCormick and Mr. Lewis in Illinois aroused widespread interest. The State is nominally Republican by 500,000 votes. Also it has been proved thoroughly Wet, according to polls and referenda...
...choosing an inscription for the new building that is to house their New York Daily News, gumchewers' tabloid with the largest U. S. circulation (1.300.000 ).* Publishers Joseph Medill Patterson and Robert Rutherford McCormick turned to Lincoln, not to Barnum. Curious crowds stood in front of the new News building last week, eyeing a procession of laborers, beggars, children, flappers, photographers marching in light relief across the building's grey-green granite facade over the tabloidally cryptic excerpt: "He made so manv of them...