Word: hanna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down the centre aisle of the members' gallery, to front seats, Mrs Coolidge led five friends. They were come for the installation of the new Mark Hanna, Butler of Boston. Below, Mr. Butler entered, carefully dressed, alone. Straight to Seat No. 28 went he?third row, fourth from the aisle. Of late, Senator Lodge sat there and the place had been reassigned to McLean of Connecticut. That day, however, McLean had yielded to Butler. Butler sat down, meditated, bowed when "Dave" Walsh came over to explain something about the swearing-in ceremony, meditated...
...once all good journalists recalled and "hashed up" the obvious parallel, the career of Marcus Alonzo Hanna...
...Mark Hanna, after being educated in the public schools of Cleveland and at Western Reserve University, went into the wholesale grocery business with his father, who soon died. From the grocery business, he went into coal and iron; from coal and iron to Great Lakes shipping and coal and iron mines, to street railways, to banking. Then he branched into politics. He worked with William McKinley; and finally, in 1896, got McKinley the Republican presidential nomination, became Chairman of the Republican National Committee and won the great campaign which ensued against Bryan and "free silver." Within a short time, there...
...Hanna, after his appointment to the Senate, served not quite a year, was elected to fill out the short term, elected for the full term. He retained his post as Republican National Chairman, in Roosevelt's time was the leader of the conservative wing of the party, and all in all came as near to being a national political boss as the country has ever seen...
...Senate handicapped by the antagonism of a large part of the old guard. Will he win them over? He is as good a business man as Hanna. Will he be as clever a politician...