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...edition of 30,000 copies was reported sold out in the first day. Its slogan is, "All the facts, no opinion" (it has no editorial page). David Lawrence, newspaper correspondent, is its publisher. All its news is indexed prominently. The list of "founders" includes: Owen D. Young, Mrs. Medill McCormick, Otto H. Kahn, Edward W. Bok, Robert Lansing, Albert Lasker, John W. Weeks, Bernard M. Baruch, James W. Gerard, E. T. Meredith, Julius Rosenwald, C. Bascom Slemp, Mary Roberts Rinehart, E. M. House, Clarence H. Mackay and John W. Davis...
Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter of the late Mark A. Hanna (Republican Senator from Ohio) and widow of Medill McCormick (Republican Senator from Illinois), announced that she would support Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois, who is seeking re-election in his state. Senator McCormick was a confirmed isolationist. Senator McKinley voted for the World Court. Senator Borah and other isolationists recently made speeches in Chicago against the World Court. Evidently Mrs. McCormick did not approve this attack on Mr. McKinley in his home territory...
...owners of the Daily News (and of the Chicago Tribune), Captain Joseph Medill Patterson and Colonel Robert R. McCormick (brother of the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick), were not mentioned because-great though they are in their profession-they are comparatively unknown to the public (outside of Chicago). "The McCormick & Patterson Daily News" as a phrase is no stronger, no more colorful than "The Daily News"; the words Patterson & McCormick add nothing to the reader's information. On the other hand, the words "Hearst Evening Journal" tell a story; the very mention of the word "Hearst" is more...
Meanwhile Publisher McCormick had put a collar on the bulldog in the form of Liberty, a brass-studded fiction journal, designed to attract readers who might otherwise spend their five cents on the Saturday Evening Post. New paper-mills were bought to serve the News and Liberty. The old bulldog had grown...
There is still a Tribune in Chicago. Last week it published an announcement: "Mr. Patterson will establish his headquarters in New York to administer the affairs of the News and Liberty. Colonel McCormick will stay in Chicago and manage the Tribune and the paper mills." Where two men had stood together to manage one paper, they must stand apart to manage three. And the deduction? "The bulldog's tail," said reasoners, "is making a million wags...