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During the 1936 presidential campaign, the Chicago Tribune, under its archconservative owner, Colonel Robert McCormick, wholeheartedly endorsed the candidacy of the Republican Alf Landon. The paper was so vehemently anti-F.D.R. that 10 days before the election, switchboard operators at the newspaper answered the phone by saying "Hello. Chicago Tribune. Only 10 days left to save the American way of life...
...McCormick applies these varied fields of research to problems ranging from medieval climate to the fall of the Roman Empire, in order to solve the ultimate question of our origin and heritage...
...McCormick thesis advisee, Maurren E. Boyle ’08 affirmed McCormick’s enthusiasm for teasing out the secrets of medieval history...
Doing “a sweep with geomagnetic sensors,” McCormick and his team were able to discover what they believe is one of Charlemagne’s estates dating from the eighth century...
Technological and scientific advancements have resulted in a surge in discoveries in medieval archaeology, which, McCormick said, makes it an exciting field of research for him and his students...