Word: leech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech. A first-rate biography which, if it leaves Mark Hanna's picked President as colorless as ever, also leaves him better understood...
...Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech. A first-rate biography which, if it leaves Mark Hanna's tame president as colorless as ever, also leaves him better understood...
...Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech. Pulitzer Prizewinner Leech's thoughtful recollection of a widely loved President who remained as colorless as a leader as he was gentle...
...gold standard). Sitting out the first presidential campaign (on his front porch in Canton, Ohio) against Bryan in 1896, he must have been shocked by the Nebraskan's notion that mankind was being "crucified on a cross of gold." The voters agreed with McKinley, and Author Leech emphasizes what is really at the heart of the McKinley story: this hymn-loving, humanity-loving man of the people was as much the favorite of the wage earners as he was the darling of the millionaire industrialists...
...only blind party loyalty could account for his devotion. His political mentor, Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, was so obviously the errand boy of the trusts that not even the wildest admirer of McKinley could hope to explain away the President's regard for big business. Yet Author Leech shows McKinley as his own man. If he rooted for the trusts, it was because he believed that business and U.S. destiny were on the same path. If he took the U.S. into war and a great-power role, it was because he knew that the hour had struck...