From http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,755233,00.html:

Marshall Field news is never neglected by Chicago’s daily papers but last week they outdid themselves with stories about the “farmer boy who took literally the world’s greatest epic entitled ‘America, the Land of Opportunity.’” Jeered Financial Columnist Royal F. Munger of the Chicago Daily News: “Slavish adulation along Horatio Alger lines by interests with one eye on the box office.”