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...Medill, daughter of Joseph Medill, founder of The Chicago Tribune. Eleanor Medill, another daughter of Joseph Medill, married Robert W. Patterson and their son Joseph Medill Patterson is one of the present publishers of the Tribune. Descended from these two prominent Chicago families, Medill McCormick also married prominence - Ruth Hanna, daughter of Mark A. Hanna of Ohio (TIME, Feb. 18, 1923). His mother, Katharine Medill, had planned that he should become publisher of the Tribune and his brother Robert R. should go into public life. So they began. Medill served with the Tribune for some time; but when Theodore Roosevelt...
...letters tell of T. R.'s struggle with the trusts, with Mark Hanna, with E. H. Harriman, with other interests-national and international...
Down the centre aisle of the members' gallery, to front seats, Mrs Coolidge led five friends. They were come for the installation of the new Mark Hanna, Butler of Boston. Below, Mr. Butler entered, carefully dressed, alone. Straight to Seat No. 28 went he?third row, fourth from the aisle. Of late, Senator Lodge sat there and the place had been reassigned to McLean of Connecticut. That day, however, McLean had yielded to Butler. Butler sat down, meditated, bowed when "Dave" Walsh came over to explain something about the swearing-in ceremony, meditated...
...Hanna, after his appointment to the Senate, served not quite a year, was elected to fill out the short term, elected for the full term. He retained his post as Republican National Chairman, in Roosevelt's time was the leader of the conservative wing of the party, and all in all came as near to being a national political boss as the country has ever seen...
...Senate handicapped by the antagonism of a large part of the old guard. Will he win them over? He is as good a business man as Hanna. Will he be as clever a politician...