Word: mckinney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truman took the cue, but he abandoned McKinney's reformer line. Instead of showing indignation at the evildoers, the President seemed to have saved it for the U.S. press; his main points at the conference were to minimize the scandals and to insist that his Administration, not congressional committees, deserved the credit for what housecleaning has been done. In answering Reporter Folliard, he said that continued drastic action was a better phrase than drastic action. There is really nothing unusual or new in the current situation in Washington. This sort of thing is going on all the time. Some...
...reporters had some questions about Frank McKinney. There had been a lot in the papers about how he made $68,000 in ten months on a $1,000 investment. In making the killing, he was dealing with a man Truman had criticized for attempts to use influence in Washington. Would McKinney be asked to resign? Truman's jaw shot out and his voice crackled. McKinney, he said, suits him down to the ground. The President isn't going to pull the rug out from under McKinney just because something happened that the newspapers didn't like...
With the confidence of an experienced brawler, Democratic National Chairman Frank E. McKinney last week slipped on his knuckle-dusters and tore into Colonel "Bertie" McCormick's Chicago Tribune. McKinney's speech at a $100-a-plate Democratic dinner in Chicago was broadcast over the Tribune's radio station, WGN, and reported in the Trib itself (from an advance copy). Shouted McKinney: "If the voters of this great city had to rely upon the Chicago Tribune as their only source of news, then they would be as badly misinformed as those unhappy millions behind the Iron Curtain...
When the Democrats left the banquet hall, the newsstands were already piled high with Tribunes carrying McCormick's counter punch. From the eminence of a Page One box (next to the report of McKinney's speech), Bertie McCormick jabbed: "The Tribune during the last two days has shown McKinney up as a crook. He has tried to muddy the water by telling lies about the Tribune...
Then Bertie, an old hand with a knuckle-duster, knocked the wind right out of McKinney. On page seven, Bertie ran a series of apologetic statements from Chicago Democrats...