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Giants. Overlord of all Pennsylvania from the '80s until 1904 was Matthew Stanley Quay, a stocky strategist with miscast eyes who made greed a fine art. Matt Quay, who shared national Republican power with Ohio's Mark Hanna, had a simple philosophy: "When a politician dies he leaves only what is found on him.'' Boss Quay sold offices, gambled with public funds, looted banks, racketeered in public contracts, drove at least a dozen men to suicide, ran Pennsylvania with a precise regard for 1) personal pelf, 2) the Republican Party as the guarantor of the protective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Pew at Valley Forge | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Bituminous coal swings with the production index and the price of fuel oil. Both factors favored M. A. Hanna Co., which netted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Paradox of the First Quarter | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Died. Thomas Beer, 50, author of The Mauve Decade, Stephen Crane, Hanna; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Slow and obliquely precious in his writing, he produced few books, many potboilers for the Satevepost. Hipped on the influence of visual color on human life, he struggled ten years to prove his spectrum, left an unfinished volume on the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...CHAD HANNA-Walter D. Edmonds -Little, Brown ($2.75). Another long (548-page), affable, remunerative haul along the Erie Canal. This one is about an orphanage runaway who picks up with Huguenine's Great and Only International Circus in 1836. Harmless, built-to-please, as neat and mild as a good carpenter's shavings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...more recently discovered Folsom site in Colorado, the Lindenmeier site, .appeared on geological evidence to be even older. A point was found there actually imbedded in a bison vertebra. Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts Jr., of Dr. Hrdlicka's own Smithsonian Institution, put its age at 20,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horatius at the Bridge | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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