Word: mccormicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Energetic Frank Knox spent election night bustling about his Chicago Daily News office, getting out extras conceding his defeat. One consolation to the booming Colonel as he settled back into publishing harness and competition with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune was Chicago's decision at the polls to limit its McCormick-fostered daylight saving time to summer only (see p. 26). This return restored to the News the normal advantage of a Midwestern evening paper over its morning rival on Washington news and final New York stock quotations...
...Under his two resounding rebukes from the electorate, Red-baiting, Roosevelt-hating Publisher McCormick went down unyielding, unrelenting. Said the Tribune's lead election story: "More Socialists and Communists voted for Mr. Roosevelt than for their own candidates. . . .Thus was established the 'popular front' against capitalism planned by the Communists and other radicals to serve until the Farmer-Labor Party absorbs the Democratic Party and becomes the major opposition to the Republican Party in 1940, according to the plan promulgated from Moscow...
Chicago Time. Last March Chicago's Democratic Kelly-Nash machine put Chicago on Eastern Standard Time all year round. Biggest backer of the change was arch-Republican Colonel Robert R. McCormick who wanted to get an hour's more news every day for his morning Tribune, take away an hour's news from his rival, Colonel Frank Knox's afternoon News. This week Chicagoans were given an opportunity not of settling the question but making their preferences known by an advisory referendum on three questions 1) Shall Chicago have Eastern Time (daylight saving all year round...
...conversations not with "Goodby" but with "Join the Volunteers." Recruiting offices were established on the 17th floor of the Tribune Tower, ballyhoo appeared daily in the Tribune, and by last week the Volunteers claimed 1,000,000 members. That figure was obtained by confusing the Tribune Volunteers, which Publisher McCormick insists is a strictly non-partisan organization, with the "Republican Volunteers for the Winning of the West," organized by Republican national headquarters. Guesses at the membership of the McCormick organization, which has branches in Manhattan, Detroit and Philadelphia, range from 10,000 to 50,000. Rhymed Chicago Times Columnist Gail...
...potent Republican sheets, Moe Annenberg's Philadelphia Inquirer, Harry Chandler's Los Angeles Times, and the Detroit Free Press have been outstanding members of the McCormick school of damnation. The late, loud Frederick...