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"ROBERT R. McCORMICK" EARLY CAMPAIGN BUTTON FOR CHICAGO TRIBUNE OWNER AND FUTURE ISOLATIONIST.
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Auction #208 - Part I > Item 494
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$74.75 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:00:00 AM)
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Auction #208 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 1277 in auction 208
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Item Description
Button is 7/8" with union bug back stamp. Slogan is "'Save The Water Power.'" Shows real photo in sepia of him in 1905, at age 25, when he was elected to a five-year term as President of the Board of Trustee's of the Chicago Sanitary District, operating the city's drainage and sewage disposal system. He took control of the Chicago Tribune just a few years later and during the 1930s opposed both the increase in Federal power which came with the New Deal and was a leading isolationist opposing U.S. entry into the WWII. NM displaying Mint. Rare.
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