Word: mccormicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ganna Walska (Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick): "Belgrade, 950 miles distant from Paris, is the capital of Jugoslavia. There I, earnest singer, appeared in the title role of Tosca. I stabbed the Baron Scarpia of the piece so vigorously that I broke my stage property knife. I got five curtain calls, and was pleased with this tribute to me, after my unkind treatment in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) and my recent failure to secure a stage in Paris, even after buying, as I thought, an opera house for myself...
They say that Liberty, five-cent fiction weekly of Col. Robert R. McCormick and Major Joseph Medill Patterson, proud overlords of that opulent vulgarian, the Chicago Tribune and its get-rich-quick little grub-sister, the New York Daily News, was established as an outlet for accumulated moneys upon which the income tax was becoming burdensome. Loosely speaking it was founded to "lose money...
Born. To Mathilde McCormick Oser, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, a son, Peter Max, her second child, in Switzerland. She also has a daughter, now aged three...
...takes diversion breeding Suffolk Punch horses and Brown Swiss cattle on his stock farm in Libertyville, 111. When the Chicago Opera Company, which long had rested on the weary shoulders of Mr. Harold F. McCormick and his wife, the now Mrs. Rockefeller-McCormick, came to Mr. Insull for salvation, the yearly deficit was a million dollars. Now it is $350,000. Directors predict that Samuel Insull will make it pay. Rarely, when he is in Chicago, does he miss a performance. In the entr'acte he goes behind to encourage the singers and they in turn speak...
...Chicago Herald-Examiner and New York American, he found what "news" the gum-chewers of his country will swallow. Then, the New York Daily News, first of the tabloids, was started by the two rich, hard-boiled publishers of the Chicago Tribune, Joseph Medill Patterson, Robert R. McCormick. Mr. Payne, an earnest, bespectacled Puck, was invited to become an assistant editor. He rose to fame as the Daily News leaped upward to the highest circulation in the U. S. Last year, Publisher Hearst, who had grabbed Arthur Brisbane from the World 30 years ago, lured Philip Payne to the Daily...