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...young Clevelanders to work for Temperance as contrasted to Prohibition, planned to organize similar "battalions" in all cities of 25,000 or more. Their organization model: The American Legion. Potent young Crusaders already enrolled: Charles Hamilton Sabin Jr., John Hay Whitney, William Phillip Carr, Charles Augustus Otis, Dan Rhodes Hanna Jr., Philip Richard Mather. Their program to reach and stir "the vast in-between class of America who are neither radical Wets more radical Drys...
Illinois politics, intraparty and interparty, divide between industrial wet Chicago and agricultural dry Down-State, win Down-State votes, to defeat Senator Charles Samuel Deneen for the Republican senatorial nomination in next April's primary election, Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick, Mark Hanna's daughter, widow of Senator Medill McCormick, set out last week none too confident of success...
...been a partner since 1915. In 1912 he organized Continental Gas & Electric, one of the earliest of public utility holding companies. The Republic deal was handled through Cliffs Corp., a recently organized investment company which combines the resources of Otis & Co. with Pickands, Mather & Co. and M. A. Hanna Co., thus bringing Cleveland's famed old iron and steel Mather and Hanna families into the newest steel development...
...better posts: Evan E. Young from the Dominican Republic to Bolivia, Roy Tasco Davis from Costa Rica to Panama, Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld from Bulgaria to Costa Rica. Four career secretaries were advanced to their first full envoyships when Julius Garecke Lay was named Minister to Honduras, Matthew Elting Hanna to Nicaragua, Post Wheeler to Paraguay, Charles Boyd Curtis to Santo Domingo. Known as "bright young men" about the State Department, all seven are glib in Spanish...
...HANNA-Thomas Beer-Knopf ($4). The Man. "Hanna's luck" was proverbial, but like so many easy explanations of success it will not bear scrutiny. Even in business he had his ups and downs; in politics no less. For five years he, a millionaire, tried to make a newspaper pay, and failed. But he was lucky in his name. That name, with its blended suggestions of some old Roman or Carthaginian proconsul, was no title for a mediocrity; Mark Hanna sounded best as either a bum or a conqueror. He was a conqueror. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, son of Leonard...