Word: mccormicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois will stand for reelection next Fall. Most of the Senators who will do likewise still remain at Washington, not having begun their campaigns. Senator McCormick also remains in Washington. But his affairs in the home borough are being carefully tended. Mrs. McCormick, formerly Ruth Hanna, daughter of the greatest of all political bosses-the late Marcus Alonzo Hanna-is firmly entrenched on the home front. There are not a few who say she is a better politician than her husband...
...author of The Boudoir Mirrors of Washington (TIME, Dec. 31) has written: "Few women in official life have the versatility or dynamic personality of Mrs. McCormick. She is a clever politician, an ardent suffragist, a social leader, an expert horsewoman, an effective writer, and a successful farmer. . . . as a daughter of Mark Hanna, so long autocrat of the G. O. P., she learned the political game early. She played a prominent part in the fascinating life of the 'Little White House.' . . . Not even during its prominence as a political stronghold throughout the Civil War did this celebrated...
...from America. After encountering various misfortunes, culminating in bankruptcy (TIME, Jan. 21) the troupe has taken itself to Europe to seek better success. Just before his departure, Stage Manager Latter-man confirmed the rumor that the company had failed despite munificent support by Mme. Ganna Walska, wife of Harold McCormick, millionaire harvester man. Mme. Walska put funds into the Company to the amount...
...records of 2,000 cases in which the convalescent serum had been administered, and found that it failed to protect in less than 3%. Drs. George H. Weaver and T. T. Crooks have just reported the results of 63 tests made through the Durand Hospital of the John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases in Chicago. It was found that chil- dren who have had measles, and babies during the first few months of life, do not readily contract the disease. Out of a group of 57 children, 48 were given the serum. Nine not given the serum who had been...
...George F. Dick and Gladys H. Dick of the John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases, Chicago, have isolated a streptococcus* from a patient with scarlet fever with which they have been able to produce scarlet fever in two out of ten volunteers who asked for the innoculation. Now they have discovered that the fluid which may be filtered from growths of these bacteria apparently contains a toxin, and that it may be used for tests which will show whether or not a person is likely to become infected with scarlet fever on exposure to the disease. The test used...