Word: hanna
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Quiet Type. George Humphrey is from the Midwest heartland of coal and ore which supports the kingdom of steel. Since the '20s he has converted Cleve land's M. A. Hanna Co. from a foundering hodgepodge of mines and miscellany into a skillfully integrated corporation with holdings worth $250 million. The M. A. Hanna Co. dominates coal and iron mines, ships, banks, chemical plants, a rayon plant, a steel corporation-and is now deep in an enormous ore project in Labrador. Humphrey's exploits made his name magic among the planners and visionaries of U.S. industry...
Like Ike, George Humphrey is likely to feel frustrated and uneasy at a cocktail party and happy when he is in the field or at the bridge table. Like Ike, he likes the far-ranging operation, is in his element when he is outbound for Labrador in the Hanna Co.'s speedy converted Lockheed patrol bomber. His nonbusiness passion is horses; he is a scientific horse breeder and an excellent horseman. His rambling, two-story country home in Kirtland Hills, just outside Cleveland, is a horsy household dominated by murals, pictures and statues of horses. Above the living-room...
...replace George M. Humphrey, the new Treasury Secretary, directors of the M. A. Hanna Co. turned over the chairman's duties to Vice Chairman George H. Love, 52. A Princeton man and a veteran of 26 years in the coal business, Love will stay on as president of the Hanna-con-trolled Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., world's biggest bituminous coal company...
...Truman. Since 1950 he has been the brilliant chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, a private, nonprofit research organization. ¶Horace Chapman ("Chappie") Rose, 45, Cleveland corporation lawyer, who will be Assistant Secretary. Rose's firm (Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis) represents Humphrey's mammoth M. A. Hanna Co., and his estate in the Cleveland suburbs neighbors Humphrey's. No stranger on the Washington scene, Rose served as secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes after he graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1931, was stationed in the Pentagon as an Army colonel during World...
...confused with M. A. Hanna's Chairman George Humphrey, incoming Treasury Secretary...