Word: hanna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been a partner since 1915. In 1912 he organized Continental Gas & Electric, one of the earliest of public utility holding companies. The Republic deal was handled through Cliffs Corp., a recently organized investment company which combines the resources of Otis & Co. with Pickands, Mather & Co. and M. A. Hanna Co., thus bringing Cleveland's famed old iron and steel Mather and Hanna families into the newest steel development...
...better posts: Evan E. Young from the Dominican Republic to Bolivia, Roy Tasco Davis from Costa Rica to Panama, Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld from Bulgaria to Costa Rica. Four career secretaries were advanced to their first full envoyships when Julius Garecke Lay was named Minister to Honduras, Matthew Elting Hanna to Nicaragua, Post Wheeler to Paraguay, Charles Boyd Curtis to Santo Domingo. Known as "bright young men" about the State Department, all seven are glib in Spanish...
...HANNA-Thomas Beer-Knopf ($4). The Man. "Hanna's luck" was proverbial, but like so many easy explanations of success it will not bear scrutiny. Even in business he had his ups and downs; in politics no less. For five years he, a millionaire, tried to make a newspaper pay, and failed. But he was lucky in his name. That name, with its blended suggestions of some old Roman or Carthaginian proconsul, was no title for a mediocrity; Mark Hanna sounded best as either a bum or a conqueror. He was a conqueror. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, son of Leonard...
Chicago schoolchildren are now able to look a gift cow in the mouth, or any other portion. Last week Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, famed Illinois Congresswoman, took a pure-bred cow from her farm and presented it to the Chicago Zoo. Said Director Alfred E. Parker: "It's for the kids who have never seen one. Thousands . . . have seen a rhinoceros and a giraffe, but have never seen...
Steel. Long known to be "friendly," Weirton Steel Co. of Weirton, West Va., M. A. Hanna Co., of Cleveland and Great Lakes Steel Corp. of Detroit last week merged through the formation of a holding company. Of the new company's $150,000,000 assets, outstanding will be Great Lakes Steel Co.'s new $20,000,000 80-acre plant now under construction in Detroit. Hot metal for the plant will come from nearby M. A. Hanna blast furnaces...