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...Cyrus H. McCormick...
...gamut of organizations is matched by an equal variety of women leaders-leaders of political causes, such as Maud Wood Park, Belle Sherwin, Mrs. Belmont, Alice Paul; leaders in practical politics, ranging from Ruth McCormick and Harriet Taylor Upton to Congresswomen Kahn, Rogers, Norton, Governesses Ross and Ferguson, who are really not leaders of women's movements at all; leaders of "social" movements such as Edith Rockefeller McCormick; leaders who have distinguished themselves in their own professions, such as Judge Florence Allen, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Jane Addams; women who have approached public life from poverty, from the bourgeoisie...
...news among themselves on a nonprofit-making basis. The routine business of this gathering was to consider ways and means of expanding and expediting news distribution, to hear Secretary of State Kellogg speak on foreign relations, and to elect as officers; Frank B. Noyes (Washington Star), president; Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune), first vice president; J. N. Heiskell (Little Rock, Ark., Gazette), second vice president. They reelected: Melville E. Stone (a former general manager) secretary, and Kent Cooper, able Hoosier, general manager...
...what newspaper is Robert R. McCormick (elected Vice President of the Associated Press) a principal owner? (See PRESS...
When he could, McCormick bought out Ogden. He wanted, all by himself, to make all the harvesters in the world. When, in 1871, Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern and his factory was a mass of embers, McCormick turned to his beautiful young wife and asked if he should rebuild or retire. Nettie Fowler McCormick replied: "Build again at once. I do not want, our boy to grow up in idleness." He rebuilt, bigger than ever. Their boy was Cyrus Hall Jr., then a lad of 12. The next year he had a brother, Harold...