Word: mccormicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exclaimed the publishers of the Chicago Tribune and the Daily News (Manhattan). It was small wonder that the musings of J. M. Patterson and R. R. McCormick differed from the poet: they had not committed his indiscretions, nor had he made a fortune by collecting pennies from the gum-chewers of a great nation...
...Messrs. Patterson and McCormick, having driven out all comers except Hearst and a small business daily from the morning newspaper field in Chicago, looked ahead for new fields to conquer. They chose Manhattan and there five years ago founded a little illustrated sheet, of scandalmongering propensities, the Daily News. The gum-chewers of Manhattan seized the News and gloated. Pennies by the carload rolled into the proprietors' pockets. And yet they felt the urge for "More! More...
With the magazine in hand it is easier to conjecture what went on in the fertile minds of Messrs. Patterson and McCormick...
...informally announced that beginning the last week in August, there would be held at Princeton University an international institute of Art. Foreign scholars will meet with American students to study and discuss the history of Art and allied subjects. Lectures will be given in McCormick Hall (recently built by the Cyrus H. McCormick family of Chicago), followed by round-table talks in the evening...
Since his defeat in the Illinois primaries, Senator McCormick also faces a period of unemployment. Hence the guffaws...