Word: hanna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscure, mean house in the south-east section of Portland, Ore. lived George Hanna, Syrian-born day laborer who had been unemployed for seven months, his wife Fiena and their seven children. They were poor, had occasionally sought aid from the county public welfare bureau. Some of their neighbors complained that the children were rowdy, but Laborer Hanna was tolerably well content with his home and with the way his wife ran it. In August he saw his home about to be broken up. Upon the complaint of neighbors, Mrs. Elizabeth Neth, assistant chief probation officer of the court...
...edited since 1926 the diocesan paper Tidings. Consecrated in St. Vibiana Cathedral in Los Angeles (he will be installed in Reno this month), he was the first local priest to be elevated to the episcopacy. To see the ceremony came thousands; assisting in it were Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of San Francisco and the Bishops of Los Angeles and San Diego, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Denver, Tucson and Baker City...
...Ohio disturbance was most violent at the M. A. Hanna Company's New Lafferty mine, where an encampment of 400 strikers, women and children, was established. The mine was rushed twice, successfully defended by company guards. Shortly thereafter, a mob of 2,000 stormed the jail. Seven more agitators were apprehended, twelve overcome by tear...
...banks and called for more donations. Edward Stephen Harkness gave $1.000,000. Fourteen other less rich men each gave $100,000 or more. The whole community gave the rest?a total of $8.000,000. Result was the six new buildings dedicated last week?Lakeside Hospital, Leonard C. Hanna House (private hospital cases), and Mather, Harvey and Lowman Houses (nurses' dormitories...
...business today is whether or not wages must come down, that many financiers (historically his opponents) are paving the way for such a move. Henry Ford has given no real opinion on the subject lately. Last week, however, two smart Detroit writers for the Wall Street Journal, Philip Hanna and Harold Gronseth, put together what they knew of his policy, wrote it as if coming from a spokesman. They said that Mr. Ford stands firm against any reduction in wages and insists that the wagescale be maintained by firms manufacturing accessories and parts for his use. The New York Times...