Vice President-Reject

Energetic Frank Knox spent election night bustling about his Chicago Daily News office, getting out extras conceding his defeat. One consolation to the booming Colonel as he settled back into publishing harness and competition with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune was Chicago's decision at the polls to limit its McCormick-fostered daylight saving time to summer only (see p. 26). This return restored to the News the normal advantage of a Midwestern evening paper over its morning rival on Washington news and final New York stock quotations.*

*Under his two resounding rebukes from the electorate, Red-baiting, Roosevelt-hating Publisher McCormick went down unyielding, unrelenting. Said the Tribune's lead election story: "More Socialists and Communists voted for Mr. Roosevelt than for their own candidates. . . .Thus was established the 'popular front' against capitalism planned by the Communists and other radicals to serve until the Farmer-Labor Party absorbs the Democratic Party and becomes the major opposition to the Republican Party in 1940, according to the plan promulgated from Moscow."

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