Displaying items 25-36 of 42
» View ktuu.com items only
< Previous
•
1
2
3
4
•
Next >
-
Myphl17 Cares Fund
Myphl17 cares, a fund of the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, supports non-profit organizations, specifically targeting children and youth in need. The foundation was established in 1955 and has current assets of approximately $2 billion. Since...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Chicago Tribune, Television Industry, Death, Special Olympics
-
Chicago hopes Zell polishes civic icon
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor more than 40 years, Martha Campbell has started her day by picking up a copy of the Chicago Tribune. As a youngster, she scoured the pages to make sure the country hadn't gone to war with the Soviet Union. As a parent, she got up hours before her...Tags: Illinois, England, Nazi Party, Chicago Tribune, Rhode Island
-
Zell closes deal for The Times
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersFor the second time in eight years, control of the Los Angeles Times changed hands Thursday, passing from a staid Chicago conglomerate to a private company headed by an unpredictable and colorful billionaire, in a debt-heavy deal that creates tremendous...Tags: Dow Jones & Company, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), David Geffen, Chicago Tribune, Rupert Murdoch
-
The first All-Star game
Tribune staff reporterWhile the "Century of Progress" World's Fair was in full swing, anevent occurred on this day that changed baseball history: the first All-Star game. A few months earlier, Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly had gone to Col. Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the...Tags: Baseball, National League, Lou Gehrig, Charlie Gehringer, St. Louis Cardinals
-
Tribune Tower competition
Tribune staff reporterTribune Tower is the product of the most famous architecture competition of the 20th Century. On this date, the 75th anniversary of the Tribune, co-publishers Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Patterson announced a design contest for the newspaper's new...Tags: Road Transportation, Architecture, Transportation, Politics, Awards and Prizes
-
America enters World War I
Tribune staff reporterWhen President Woodrow Wilson asked for a declaration of war against Germany on April 2, 1917, it surprised no one. When Congress issued the declaration four days later, it was a matter of course. America's entry into World War I had been building for...Tags: William Hale Thompson, Illinois, Hotels and Accommodations, Death, Germany
-
"The Gumps"
Tribune staff reporterWho could believe that America would carry on a 42-year love affair with Andy Gump--a bald, toothless, chinless chap whose biggest claim to fame was that he invented the flowerpot and introduced the polka-dot tie to America? Maybe Chicago Tribune co-...Tags: The New York Times, Accidental Death, Moon Mullins, Chicago Tribune, Cartoons
-
Robert R. McCormick
Tribune staff reporterHis name was Robert R. McCormick, a president but not yet the Colonel. He was 33 and had been president of the Tribune for three years. On this date, McCormick embarked on an arrangement with his cousin, Joseph Patterson, to share editing and publishing...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Death, Marketing, Politics, New York
-
Joseph Medill buys the Chicago Tribune
Chicago TribuneThe little newspaper on Clark Street was certainly no great prize. Neither, in the eyes of Joseph Meharry Medill, was Chicago, which he viewed as a "quagmire on the lake." The 32-year-old crusading editor of the Cleveland Morning Leader could not be...Tags: Illinois, Wars and Interventions, Chicago Tribune, Death, Elections
-
On the future, dealmaking and bad press
Sam Zell, the open-collared Chicago billionaire who is set to take control of the buttoned-down Tribune Co., surveyed the stately office of legendary Tribune figure Col. Robert R. McCormick and signaled that a new era is at hand. "I think this would be a...Tags: Sales, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field, Economy, Business and Finance
-
Buyout won't mean end of firm's link to foundation
Tribune staff reporterThis story contains corrected material, published April 7, 2007. The deal to take Tribune Co. private would end the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation's long standing as a major shareholder of the company, but other ties between the Chicago-based...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Knight-Ridder Inc, Death, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Politics
-
Historian: Zell deal 'a great paradox'
Tribune staff reporterMany of Col. Robert R. McCormick's oddities—such as simplified spelling and rabid partisanship in news stories—disappeared long ago from the pages of the Chicago Tribune. But the conservative values that he espoused and shared with many...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Death, Politics, History, Elections
Aug 17, 2008
|Story| WPHL-LTV
Dec 21, 2007
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Dec 21, 2007
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Dec 19, 2007
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Dec 19, 2007
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Dec 19, 2007
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Dec 19, 2007
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Dec 19, 2007
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Dec 18, 2007
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 4, 2007
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 4, 2007
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 2, 2007
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Original site for Robert R. McCormick topic gallery.
