Word: mccormicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Edith Rockefeller McCormick was not present. She had sprained her ankle...
Once there was a Tribune in Chicago. Sturdy bulldog of newspapers, with bandy legs and a coarse voice, it glared at rivals, referred to itself as "the World's Greatest Newspaper." Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson were its keepers, co-editors and publishers...
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...