Word: mccormicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modification of the Volstead Act to permit the sale of light wines and beers, to be followed by a tax on these beverages to pay the bonus. This was suggested by the New York Daily News, offspring of the Chicago Daily Tribune, and generally reflecting the opinions of Senator McCormick of Illinois. As a practical possibility this suggestion is negligible if not ridiculous...
...Senator McCormick, who is again enjoying the center of his own whirl- wind...
...McCormick remarks are not to be interpreted, however, entirely in the light of Hiram Johnson's candidacy. Senator McCormick is a son-in-law of the late Mark Hanna, the great Republican boss. He got into politics through journalism. Beginning as reporter, he advanced to publisher and principal owner of the Chicago Daily Tribune. He was sucked into politics by the Payne-Aldrich Tariff bill, joined with Roosevelt and the Progressives in the fight on Taft in 1912. Then his comrades-in-arms were Gifford Pinchot and Hiram Johnson. In 1916, however, he returned to the Republican fold...
Thus Medill McCormick is asso- ciated with the "progressives" in national politics and the extreme League of Nations irreconcilables, two groups who have caused no little trouble to the "regulars" in the Republican camp. In both respects he has a natural community of interest with Hiram Johnson, and his remarks are typical of the opposition that the Administration has to face from both groups...
...first attack on the Hughes note, Senator McCormick referred to the "lotus-eaters" of the State Department and said (in effect) : " What a fine man is George M. Reynolds,* how much better than J. P. Morgan or another to settle the reparations question with due hostility to the League of Nations...