Word: mccormicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement from Senator McCormick of Illinois to the effect that the World Court is extremely unpopular with the people of the Middle West...
Senator Medill McCormick, cadaverous-looking publisher of the " World's Greatest Newspaper " (Chicago Tribune), will be unhappy until America is possessed of the British West Indies and is dispossessed of the Philippines. He wanted Secretary Mellon to insist that Great Britain cede the West Indies as part of the debt settlement. The Secretary, who is certainly richer and possibly as powerful as the publisher, did nothing of the kind. The publisher then proposed that the two island realms be " swapped...
...McCormick regards the West Indies as a menace to the Panama Canal and the Philippines as a military liability...
Died. Mrs. Nellie McCormick Flagg, wife of James Montgomery Flagg, the artist, in Manhattan, following a short illness...
Muratore sang before a brilliant audience reminiscent of the days before yesterday. Miss Garden stood up in her box and applauded frantically while the tenor's wife, Lina Cavalieri, looked on. Mrs. McCormick was in the box next to Miss Garden and gave evidences of divine friendliness...