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2 unusual facts about Washington J. McCormick


Francis Lyman Worden

In 1868, Worden and Higgins sold their business interests in Deer Lodge and, with Washington J. McCormick, planned 100 acres of the townsite of Missoula.

Washington J. McCormick

Mccormick was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921 - March 4, 1923), but was unsuccessful in his reelection bid in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.


America First Committee

Nearly half came from a few millionaires such as William H. Regnery, H. Smith Richardson of the Vick Chemical Company, General Robert E. Wood of Sears-Roebuck, Sterling Morton of Morton Salt Company, publisher Joseph M. Patterson (New York Daily News) and his cousin, publisher Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune).

Baie-Comeau

Baie-Comeau itself (the eastern part of the current town) was founded in 1936 when a paper mill was constructed by Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune.

Battle of Cantigny

In the center of Cantigny, a small monument was dedicated in 2005 by the McCormick Foundation to commemorate the participation of Major Robert R. McCormick in the historic 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery, the oldest American military unit on continuous active duty (dating back to the American Revolutionary War), then part of the First Division.

The American Battle Monuments Commission erected a monument in the village of Cantigny that was dedicated on 9 August 1937 with a speech given (at the invitation of General John J. Pershing) by Col. Robert R. McCormick, who had commanded the 1st Battalion of the 5th Field Artillery regiment at the battle.

Chicago Theater of the Air

Intermission commentary was originally by conductor Henry Weber and later by Chicago publisher Robert R. McCormick.

Edmund W. Wells

He was appointed to the newly created 4th district by President Benjamin Harrison and his nomination was supported by U.S. Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, Arizona Territorial Governors Richard C. McCormick, Anson P. K. Safford, and Lewis Wolfley, Arizona Territorial Justices Charles G. W. French and William W. Porter, Arizona Territorial Secretary John J. Gosper, and Oakes Murphy.

Franquelin, Quebec

The Ontario Paper Company, owned by Colonel Robert R. McCormick, which later became the Quebec North Shore Paper Co., needed paper to supply the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, which were also owned by McCormick.

George Seldes

Seldes returned to Europe, but found that his work increasingly censored to fit the political views of the newspaper's owner, Robert R. McCormick.

Japanese naval codes

In June 1942 the Chicago Tribune, run by isolationist Col. Robert R. McCormick, published an article that implied that the United States had broken the Japanese codes.

John D. McCormick

McCormick is not to be confused with John P. McCormick, a deputy editorial page editor for the Chicago Tribune whom Blagojevich allegedly pressured the Tribune to fire in November and December 2008.

He is a 1987 graduate of Roseville (Minnesota) Area High School and 1991 graduate of the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota).

The Washington Post made mention of the exchange in a column by Dana Milbank.

About a month after graduation, he started a job at the Rochester Post-Bulletin in southeastern Minnesota, where he covered police, courts, local government, before being assigned to cover the Minnesota Legislature and state government in St. Paul.

John P. McCormick

McCormick is not to be confused with another Chicago Tribune editorial employee, reporter John D. McCormick, who covered the campaign of Barack Obama.

John W. McCormick

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Joseph F. McCormick

He was commissioned in the United States Army as a second lieutenant in the infantry, serving for two years with the 82nd Airborne Division and two years with the 1st Ranger Battalion until leaving active duty in 1988 as a captain.

Joseph M. McCormick

In 1907–1908, he spent some time under the care of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung in Zurich, and subsequently followed Jung's advice to detach himself from the family newspaper.

Leander J. McCormick

He was the fourth of five sons and was raised at the family homestead known as Walnut Grove, near Raphine in Rockbridge County, in the Shenandoah Valley on the western side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Lightnin' Hopkins

In 1959, Hopkins was contacted by folklorist Mack McCormick who hoped to bring him to the attention of the broader musical audience which was caught up in the folk revival.

Musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins "is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".

Michael E. McCormick

He began his career in 1958 as a hydrodynamicist at the U. S. Navy's David Taylor Model Basin.

Nelson B. McCormick

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

Port-Cartier

In 1915, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, owner of the Chicago Tribune, visited the Rochers River area to evaluate its forest potential.

Robert J. McCormick

He was raised in Brooklyn, graduating from James Madison High School in 1965.

McCormick graduated from St. Johns University with a degree in Spanish Literature, Italian, and French.

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

However, Chicago inventor and utilities magnate Samuel Insull, Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, and even Welles' own life were used in creating Kane.

The Search for Robert Johnson

The film is loosely organised around field work by Johnson researcher Robert "Mack" McCormick.


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