Word: mccormicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LIBERTY, famed product of potent tycoon Medill-Patterson-McCormick-dynasty, March 9, p. 4, editorially, re "DIVORCE AND COLLUSION," says...
Ganna Walska d'Eighnhorn Fraenkel Cochran McCormick last fall entered the U.S. bringing 15 trunkfuls of personal effects which she valued at two million dollars. She declined to pay duty, on the ground that she was a nonresident U.S. citizen whose home is in Paris. Unsympathetic customs officials impounded her baggage, declaring that a wife's residence was with her husband, and that Harold Fowler McCormick lives in Chicago (TIME...
...special Grand National trip on the 55. Berengaria were Mrs. Payne Whitney, who has two horses entered, Easter Hero and Maguelonne; A. Charles Schwartz, whose Darracq will run; Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, William H. Neilson Voss, Alfred 0. Corbin, Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Mortimer, Joseph J. Larkin, Robert H. McCormick. Late betting quotations last week gave the following odds against favorite horses: Billy Barton-14-1; Grakle-14-1; Great Span-14-1; Master Billie-14-1; Maguelonne-18-1; Easter Hero-20-1; Carfax-25-1; Duke of Florence...
Ganna Walska has had busy days this season. She has fought in court with the U. S. Customs endeavouring to establish a legal residence separate from her husband, Harold Fowler McCormick. She has opened a Manhattan branch of her Paris perfume business, and obtained orders from small-town department stores. And, contrary to all expectations, she has taken a concert tour, the peak of which came, last week, in Manhattan, where she had never ventured a public performance...
Assuming that the businessman control idea actually goes into operation, whom might Chicagoans select as leader of the business group? Young as Chicago is, many of its great pioneer families have already passed into their third generations. Among the Swifts, the Armours, the McCormicks. the Potter Palmers, perhaps the most available candidate is Harold Higgins Swift (president of the board of the University of Chicago, director of Chicago's United Charities). Potent, indeed, are Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, heads of the Chicago Tribune. But Mr. McCormick would hardly leave the Tribune to act in an advisory capacity...