Box 6

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Correspondence and memos regarding law office bills, including payments to Herbert Bebb for answering questions addressed to the Legal Friend of the People. Walter Trohan's message to J.H. Wood of December 10, 1948, regarding tax prospects

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Notes from Col. McCormick inquiring about salaries of Tribune and New York News executives and how they compared. Resulting lists prepared by J.H. Wood in Chicago and J.A. Derham in New York

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Correspondence among E.M. Antrim, J.H. Wood and J.A. Cotey (in Chicago) and J.A. Derham and P.B. Stephens (in New York) about pay scales and bonuses in the various departments of the Chicago Tribune and New York News, and how they compared

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Memo from H.F. Grumhaus to J.A. Park on union negotiations at the Herald-Examiner and the American. Copy of New York News guild agreement

Scope and Contents Correspondence and Tribune board resolutions relating to contracts of J.H. Wood, W.D. Maxwell, A.A. Schmon, and C.M. Campbell. Correspondence among R.R. McCormick, E.M. Antrim, and J.H. Wood relating to company cars provided to executives, 1953. Letter and report from John H. King to J.H. Wood criticizing operation of the circulation department, 1954. Memos regarding charges of under-the-table payments in connection with the sale of newspaper dealerships in Indiana, 1954, particularly the...

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Memo from C.M. Campbell to J.H. Wood, September 29, 1950, regarding payments to be made to Mrs. Campbell should he die. Letter from C.M. Campbell authorizing J.H. Wood to continue on the board of the Lake Shore Bank, and correspondence with Keith Masters leading up to it. Correspondence regarding contracts with F.M. Flynn, R.W. Clarke, Paul Fulton, W.C. Kurz, A.M. Kennedy, Stuart List, and F.A. Nichols, 1957 and 1958. Proposed contract with J.A. Cotey, February 1960, not completed

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Evaluation of possible successors to executive positions in advertising, editorial departments and WGN

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Correspondence among J.H. Wood, W.C. Kurz, and C.E. McKittrick about the Advertising Sales Incentive Fund for 1960. List of executive payroll showing premiums paid to Bankers Life for supplementary annuity, 1960

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Sheets for each of 57 top employees for 1960 showing salary, other compensation, additional amounts contributed by the company, biographical data, and retirement income computation

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Copies of letters from J.H. Wood and A.A. Schmon to F.M. Flynn regarding the filling of the vacancy on the board resulting from the death of C.M. Campbell, May, 1961. Correspondence between J.H. Wood and F.M. Flynn in March-April 1964 regarding the filling of the vacancies resulting from the death of A.A. Schmon