WOMEN: Widow

"I 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...

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