Word: mccormicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choose to run for the Republican nomination for Congressman-at-large from Illinois in the April primary of 1928," said Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, among other things, last week...
Widow of the late Senator Medill McCormick, she, aged 47, has lived and breathed politics since she was old enough to realize that her father, the late Mark Hanna, was a very important man. When Mark Hanna was in the U. S. Senate, she, a smart bud, fresh from Dobbs Ferry and Farmington, was there too, at work in his office. She says: "If I wanted to dance until four o'clock in the morning, well and good, but I had to be in the office just the same at nine o'clock and be good-natured about...
Having married politics, she rose to enjoy a prestige in the capital second only to presidents' wives and to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, whose father was often at loggerheads* with Mrs. McCormick's father. When Miss Hanna first saw Miss Roosevelt, the latter had just "burst upon the world as Princess Alice." Miss Hanna thought Princess Alice a harum-scarum. Princess Alice thought the young lady who presided over the griddle cakes and corned beef hash at Senator Hanna's political breakfasts in Lafayette Square, a superb prig...
...fortnight ago the International Harvester Co. announced the addition to its list of three new contraptions. Inserted alphabeti- cally in the list, the new names would not be impressive. Looked at separately and thoughtfully, they appeared almost as epochal as the original McCormick reaper. They were...
...Stockholm, Sweden, the view was good. But at Fagernas, Norway, thick clouds made useless the efforts of Dr. Samuel A. Mitchell of Leander-McCormick Observatory (University of Virginia), head of a large U. S. expedition...