Box 2

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Correspondence dealing with charges against the Tribune in Hilary Saunders's book "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" excerpted in Reader's Digest; attacks by Friends of Democracy (Rex Stout and L. M. Birkhead); undated memo from R.R. McCormick calling for a series on congressmen "who are not pro-American"

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Memos from R.R. McCormick, Maloney and Ellis and correspondence with others involving Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harold Stassen; origin of the Republican Party; Ralph N. Blodgett's textbook on economics; Friends of Democracy; Lowell B. Mason and the Federal Trade Commission; Victor Lasky and John Tebbel; England; Wisconsin newspapers; and the National Education Association

Scope and Contents Memos from McCormick, Henning, Schmon, Bill Fulton, and other correspondence involving suburban rail service; railroad unions; Friends of Democracy; European colonialism in Africa; St. Charles School for Boys; Oregon power projects; the Philippines; Sen. Pat McCarran; income and estate taxes; press freedom (William Benton and Cranston Williams of ANPA); Noel Field (case of mistaken identity); union with Canada; Egypt; McCormick's 70th birthday resolution drafts by Stolz, Henning, and Frank...

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Memos among McCormick, Maxwell, Joe Ator, and other material involving the St. Lawrence Seaway; James G. Stahlman (Nashville Tennessean); Japanese emigration; Chicago railroad terminals; New York Times; Henry J. Kaiser; Harold Stassen; press freedom; Judge Robert J. Dunne; Communist containment; Charles F. Brannan (Secretary of Agriculture); newsprint; Edward Hanrahan and Zenith Radio

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Memos from McCormick and other material involving Chicago water diversion; women running England; Palmer Hoyt (Denver Post) and McCarthyism; Sen. Owen Brewster and Passamaquoddy; Edgar C. Bundy; Chicago statues; plastics industry; McCormick's dog KC; personnel

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McCormick memo shortly before his death on care of the sick; other topics include Sigma Delta Chi; American Legion; African Americans (George Washington Carver Award); L. T. Merrill (Tribune paragrapher); Roy M. Cohn; Anthony Olis (rejecting of gift certificate); Kenneth DeCourcy

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Correspondents and topics include Loyd Wright of the Committee on Government Security regarding the Tribune's Battle of Midway story; Gen. R.E. Wood on Everett Dirksen; David Lawrence on the 14th amendment; Vermont Royster; Sargent Shriver; Paul Simon; the English Speaking Union

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Correspondents and topics include Howard Ellis, Don Reuben, David Lawrence, Clarence Randall, Sargent Shriver, T.F. Flahiff and Canada, National Review, J.M. Cleary, and L. T. Merrill

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Freedom of Information Committee correspondence with Erwin Canham, Basil Walters, James S. Pope, and others; memos from McCormick and J. Loy ("Pat") Maloney