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...utility rates protected by his political power, his wealth feeding back to regenerate that power, Boss Roraback had the kind of friends and enemies that only strong men make. What Ohio's Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") Hanna did with the Republican Party nationally during the single Presidential generation of William McKinley, whipping Big Business to the Party treasury with fear of Bryan's silver money, cajoling it with protective tariffs and other favors, Boss Roraback did with controlled budgets, legislation favorable to industry, in Connecticut during eight gubernatorial terms. But public resentment against his dominance never rose very high...
...July 8, John Davison Rockefeller would have been 98. The late Marcus Alonzo Hanna, who knew him well and served him faithfully, once said of Mr. Rockefeller: "Sane in every respect save one-he is money mad." In the past few years, however, Mr. Rockefeller's dominant ambition was to live to be 100. With the same serene confidence in his destiny that once made him master of the nation's oil industry and the world's first billionaire, he believed he would achieve his goal. But last week, as it must to all men, Death came...
Proudest father in Washington's official family is Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring, a bachelor until four years ago. Proudest mother is Secretary Woodring's pretty young wife, Helen Coolidge Woodring, daughter of Massachusetts' ex-Sena-tor Marcus Allen Coolidge, who bore him their third child last February. Last week proud Father Woodring requested every officer and enlisted man in the U. S. Army and every member of the Civilian Conservation Corps to write a letter to his mother on Mother...
...opening a small clothing store in Chicago in 1872. When an out-of-town merchant admired their stocks, the Hart boys offered to supply him with a few suits, a move which soon led to the establishment of a wholesale house, one of their backers being a relative named Marcus Marx, who had run a general store in Hastings, Minn. Aside from drawing down profits, that was all that Marx ever had to do with Hart Schaffner & Marx...
...amazement of probably everyone in California except Dr. Marcus and the busy sound camera crews, Mrs. Love opened her eyes and said: "Yes, Dr. Marcus...