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Feet off Desk. Bertie McCormick seemed to have come by his autocratic, opinionated ways by inheritance. His grandfather, Joseph Medill, one of the founders of the Republican Party, once characteristically hollered at Congressman Abe Lincoln "Take your goddamned feet off my desk, Abe." (The Colonel enforced his own Trib ban against feet on the desk.) Unlike his grandson, Medill led public opinion in the U.S. Almost singlehanded, he assured Lincoln's nomination for the presidency. Then, with the power of his Trib, he swung Midwestern opinion in support of Lincoln in the election of 1860, forcibly preached the abolition...
When Medill died in 1899, he left a $130 million estate, and the editorship of the Trib fell to Robert Patterson, Medill's son-in-law and uncle of Robert McCormick. When Patterson died suddenly, a group of stockholders had about decided to sell the Trib to a publishing rival when young Robert McCormick stepped in. He persuaded them to keep the Tribune in the family. From 1914 on, he and his cousin, Joseph Medill Patterson, took complete charge of the Trib...
...when he and Patterson became active co-editors and co-publishers of the Trib, Bertie McCormick was a strapping, blue-eyed young man with an air of Old World gallantry, a feeling of noblesse oblige and a love for the military. He had gone to grade school in England, graduated from Groton one form ahead of his archenemy-to-be, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After Yale ('03) he moved into Chicago's swank Union Club and began law courses at Northwestern ("They had a lot of Yalemen on the Supreme Court about then, and we got the idea that...
When Bertie and Joe Patterson took over the "World's Greatest Newspaper," they set out to make the paper's slogan come true. They livened up the Trib with crusades against crime and political corruption, lured in more readers with some of the first serial comic strips (Moon Mullins, The Gumps, Little Orphan Annie) ever printed in a U.S. daily. They watched the paper's circulation and profits soar, bought vast Canadian pulp forests and a fleet of vessels that still supply the Trib with paper. But the cousins seldom saw eye to eye. Though he bitterly...
...tasted the wine of death, and its flavor will be forever in my throat".) At war's end Captain Patterson and Colonel McCormick launched the Daily News in New York. A few years later the cousins split; Patterson began to run the News alone, and McCormick bossed the Trib...