The Press: Good Neighbor

For nine years, Publisher Samuel Emory Thomason of Chicago's tabloid Daily Times (p.m.) was Vice-President and Business Manager of the Chicago Tribune (a.m.), published by his Northwestern Law School classmate and former law partner, Robert Rutherford McCormick. The Daily Times is the closest imitation in U. S. journalism of New York's tabloid Daily News, published by ''Bertie'' Mc-Cormick's cousin, Joseph Medill Patterson.* The Chicago Times, like the New York Daily News, is a gay and vigorous supporter of the New Deal. Nothing delights the Times more than baiting solemn Colonel McCormick's...

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