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...When Populists roughed up dudish Editor White on the street, he reacted in an editorial broadside, What's the Matter with Kansas? His answer: Populism. The editorial made Editor White a national figure and helped to elect William McKinley President. It also made Republican Boss Mark Hanna White's devoted patron, a circumstance which once gave President McKinley a bad turn. Hanna first introduced Editor White to the President by putting his hand on White's shoulder and saying: "This is my boy." McKinley batted a shocked eye. "Oh no, no, Mr. President," said Hanna. "I mean...
...Million Cash. Last fortnight the Quebec Government gave Hollinger an exclusive 20-year concession to explore and develop 3,900 square miles of Ungava directly across the border from its Labrador concession (see map). Hollinger and a U.S. associate, the iron mining firm of M. A. Hanna, agreed to spend upward of $300 million...
Died. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, 64, onetime Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois, daughter of Ohio's President-Maker Marcus Hanna, widow of Illinois' Senator Medill McCormick, wife of a one time Congressman from New Mexico; of pancreatitis; in Chicago...
...witch was tiny (95 lb.) Hanna Reitsch, famed glider and helicopter pilot (who was a U.S. National Air Races stunting favorite in 1938). The story: in 1942 V-1 had a tendency to shake off its wings. In a robot fitted with landing skids...
Died. The Most Rev. Edward Joseph Hanna, 83, San Francisco's longtime (1915-35) labor-arbitrating Archbishop; in Rome, where he had lived since his retirement. Smooth-faced, hook-nosed Archbishop Hanna's active 20-year leadership in West Coast labor reform climaxed in 1934 when he was the Roosevelt-appointed Chairman of the National Longshoremen's Board which raised dockworkers' wages, granted them a 30-hour week...