Word: hanna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Archbishop Hanna of San Francisco (TIME, Dec. 10) was named as the most likely U. S. candidate...
Henry Bacon was well known as a designer of settings for sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel C. French. Among his many successes are the memorial to James McNeill Whistler in the West Point Library and the Marcus Alonzo Hanna monument at Cleveland. But his crowning achievement was the memorial to Lincoln. Here his profound knowledge of Greek architecture, coupled with his skill in adapting classic design to modern needs, produced possibly the most dignified piece of architecture in the country. Mr. Bacon was selected by the Fine Arts Commission in 1911 to design this important work...
Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois will stand for reelection next Fall. Most of the Senators who will do likewise still remain at Washington, not having begun their campaigns. Senator McCormick also remains in Washington. But his affairs in the home borough are being carefully tended. Mrs. McCormick, formerly Ruth Hanna, daughter of the greatest of all political bosses-the late Marcus Alonzo Hanna-is firmly entrenched on the home front. There are not a few who say she is a better politician than her husband...
...Boudoir Mirrors of Washington (TIME, Dec. 31) has written: "Few women in official life have the versatility or dynamic personality of Mrs. McCormick. She is a clever politician, an ardent suffragist, a social leader, an expert horsewoman, an effective writer, and a successful farmer. . . . as a daughter of Mark Hanna, so long autocrat of the G. O. P., she learned the political game early. She played a prominent part in the fascinating life of the 'Little White House.' . . . Not even during its prominence as a political stronghold throughout the Civil War did this celebrated old Taylor Mansion...
...Mark Hanna. "Thus began one of the most fascinating chapters in political history: the actual making of a President by a private citizen who was possessor of much money, more enthusiasm and extraordinary ability as an administrator and political adventurer. ... As Senator . . . his governmental functions were almost as numerous as those of Pooh-Bah in Titipu...