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...great corporations in his syndicated editorials, is known to be director of no company. Roy Wilson Howard tends closely to his newspaper and affiliated enterprises. So also Conde-Nast, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and the Booths (George G. and Ralph Harman) of Detroit, and Adolph Ochs. Messrs. Patterson and McCormick of the Chicago Tribune and Liberty are close to inherited interests in great corporations, not publishing, but they eschew directorates. Ogden M. Reid of the New York Herald-Tribune and Daniel Rhodes Hanna Jr. of the Cleveland News, like them inheritors of stock interests, were obliged to assume...
Others: Miss Jane Olmsted of Harrisburg, Pa., daughter of Mrs. Vance C. McCormick; Miss Elizabeth Bliss of Manhattan, granddaughter of onetime Secretary of Interior Cornelius N. Bliss; Miss Evelyn Bigelow Clark, granddaughter of that aged and eccentric writer of memoirs about royal personages, Poultney Bigelow (TIME, Jan. 23, 1927); Mrs. John B. Stetson Jr., wife of the U. S. Minister to Poland; Miss Marion Dixon (Chicago); Miss Dorothy Gillespie (Philadelphia); Miss Frances McKee (Washington); Mrs. John G. W. Husted (Manhattan); Miss Ruth Pruyn (Albany, N. Y.); Miss Virginia Both (Detroit); Miss Katherine Bullock (Denver); and Miss Diana Rockwood (Indianapolis); Miss...
...first: Anita Oser, daughter of Mrs. Mathilde McCormick Oser & Max Oser, Swiss (TIME...
Meanwhile, young McCormick was studying law, dabbling in politics, getting married, emerging from the War a colonel...
From the time that they first began to wiggle pencils, Cousins McCormick & Patterson knew that the Tribune was waiting for them. They took over the reins of editorship in 1914, and after the War their whip cracked loudly, domineeringly. The morning field in Chicago had been cut down to two newspapers: the Tribune and the Hearst-owned Herald and Examiner.* In a circulation war which culminated in the distribution of nearly $1,000,000 worth of "lucky number" coupons, both newspapers distinguished themselves in bad taste and the Tribune achieved a domination which has never since been threatened. Andy...