Word: mccormicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although official count was still pending, it appeared certain that Senator Medill McCormick had been defeated by Illinois' ex-Governor, Deneen, with whom he was contesting the Republican nomination for the Senate. He lacked only some 4,000 votes for renomination. He failed to get them, either because he was too unpleasantly hostile to European affairs, or because he was too bitter toward the bad local governor (one Len Small), or because he somewhat too blatantly permitted Federal office holders to work in his behalf, or because he was too militaris- tic, or because the people had become suspicious...
...starting right, for you are paying your way as you go. The history of opera companies that are managed under some scheme of subsidy or guarantee is a recital of failures. The Teapot Dome scandal of grand operadom was the Chicago Civic Opera Company in the days when Harold McCormick's millions were back of it. The extravagance was dreadful...
...Longworth compromise tax rates (maximum surtax 371/2%) by the original Mellon rates (maximum surtax 25%). This was done by vote of 8 to 7. Two members of the Committee were absent. One of them, Senator LaFollette, would have voted with the Democrats against the change. The other, Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois, Republican, was classified as "uncertain." In their double absence, however, the thing was done. Of course, the decision is far from final- on the floor of the Senate much the same situation will exist-a combination of insurgent Republicans with Democrats, which may result in the surtax being...
...Joseph Pulitzer. ¶ The New York Times and the Chattanooga Times, total circulation 357,556 daily, 559,687 Sunday. They are the properties of Adolph S. Ochs. ¶ The Chicago Tribune and the Daily News (Manhattan), total circulation 1,201,206 daily; 1,444,848 Sunday. Colonel R. R. McCormick and Captain J. M. Patterson are the owners. ¶ The Philadelphia Public Ledger and the New York Evening Post, total circulation 318,360 daily; 247,297 Sunday. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, veteran magazine publisher, is their owner...
...When you make a list of the big women in Washington, you can't afford to leave out Ruth McCormick. . . . She is the sort you can't keep under...