Word: hanna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sectarian organization known as Big Sisters. Present on the opening day in their shiniest toppers and most brilliant jewels were such latter-day Guelphs & Ghibellines as Otto Hermann Kahn, John Hays Hammond, Philip Lehman. Jules Semon Bache, Alexander Hamilton Rice, Miss Lizzie Bliss, Lady Mendl, Leonard C. Hanna...
...sheet steel, sells it to makers of automobile bodies, railway cars, refrigerators, stoves. Last year it earned $1,652,000, will not do so well this year. National Steel was formed in November 1929, to acquire Weirton Steel Co., Great Lakes Steel and stockholdings of M(arcus) A(lonzo) Hanna & Co. in certain of its subsidiaries. It ranks as the sixth biggest steel company in production, is surpassed only by U. S. Steel and Bethlehem in the extent of its ore reserves. It has girded itself for future growth, spending $7,000,000 on improving Weirton Steel's plants...
Illinois. Most spectacular of Democratic senatorial victories throughout the land occurred when James Hamilton Lewis roundly defeated Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick's ambition to be the first woman elected to the Senate. Senator-elect Lewis, ever the begloved, bewhiskered, bowing gallant, had made a Wet, witty campaign against Mark Hanna's Prohibition-weasling daughter. He had convulsed his audiences with mock embarrassment at being "pursued by two lovely ladies" (Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill was a Dry independent also-ran), with references to Mrs. McCormick's attempt to be a "dripping Venus rising from the sea of Chicago." Even...
...which to frighten the city's 75,000 Negro voters out of their Republican wits. What he ghoulishly drew forth was the wraith of Chicago's great race riot of July 27-Aug. 2, 1919. This he hurled anonymously at the Senator's widow, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, now the Republican nominee for the Senate against Democrat James Hamilton Lewis...
...printed the above cartoon and Senator Medill McCormick gave out the accompanying interview which I believe created greater race hatred and increased the number of murders. ... It is my duty to recall to you now [the cartoon and interview] so that you may be warned before voting . . . for Ruth Hanna McCormick, the widow and adviser of Medill McCormick. Those who vote for a member of the Chicago Tribune family . . . may jeopardize their lives, because a seat in the Senate would again give great political power to a McCormick and the Tribune to use against public peace and peaceful citizens...