Box 1

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From the Deininger files. $10,000 put into escrow with Alexander G. Jamie of the Chicago Association of Commerce for payment to William Taylor if he provides information on the Lingle murder satisfactory to the Tribune. Correspondence between R.R. McCormick and J.M. Patterson regarding payments by the New York News for the same purpose to the Val O'Farrell Detective Agency.

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This folder contains office correspondence about the contest and its winners. Also correspondence with the first-place winner, George Elwell, who was growing impatient for his money.

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Unsuccessful suggestions for the winning name, "Liberty"; these came in after Elwell's suggestion.

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Unsuccessful suggestions for the second and third winning names, "Vision" and "Tomorrow."

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Correspondence in which Percy Coffin, a defendant in the Tribune suit against the Thompson machine, works through Edward H. Wright, a Black Chicago politician, and Rep. Martin Madden, in an effort to peresuade President Harding to see that the Tribune loses its case. The wording of the messages is delightfully enigmatic. The papers appear to have come from Mr. Coffin.

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S.E. Thomason file on the sale of the Tribune building at Dearborn and Madison; the purchase of a lot west of Michigan Avenue from Roy Keehn and others; and the exchange of this lot for the lot east of Michigan to be occupied by Tribune Tower.

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Pamphlet: Addenda to contract between Tribune Co. and Union Trust Co. for the sale of the Tribune building at Dearborn and Madison. Payments to run through 1982.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers of J. Howard Wood, general manager of the Tribune Company. Many of these papers come from Wood's own files as auditor and controller, treasurer, business manager and general manager. Some come from the files of his predecessors, S.E. Thomason and D.M. Deininger, and some from the files of R.R. McCormick. Box 1: Material involving the naming of Liberty magazine, the William Hale Thompson lawsuit, the sale of the building at Dearborn and Madison...