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...fought no major war between 1865 and 1917. The result is that there were no generals among the nine 20th century Presidents, or among their defeated major party opponents. In fact, there are only five veterans among the nine 20th century Presidents and their eleven defeated opponents: Major William McKinley (Civil War), Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (Spanish-American War), Lieut. Alfred Landon (World War I), Captain Wendell Willkie (World War I) and Captain Harry Truman (World...
...McKinley's Prayer. The Filipinos have reason to cheer the rise of Ramon Magsaysay-and the U.S. has reason to be a sympathetic onlooker. For the infant republic of the Philippines is the great-and unfinished-U.S. experiment in transplanting democracy. In its tropical laboratory, among the dying roots of colonialism and the lushly growing thickets of Communism, the U.S. brand of freedom is being tested in the Orient...
...They heard Indiana's Senator Albert J. Beveridge cry: '''God did not make the American people the mightiest' human force of all time simply to feed and die ... He has made us the lords of civilization . . . The Philippines are ours forever." They heard President McKinley trying to set his own mind straight: "When ... I realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps, I confess I did not know what to do with them ... I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance . . ." The guidance McKinley thought...
...many as a friend of the people. He muckraked the trusts, exposed Standard Oil for bribing Senators, campaigned for the eight-hour day (which Hearst properties ignored), woman suffrage, public ownership-and, of course, for circulation. In 1901 he was hanged in effigy as an inciter of McKinley's assassination, but a year later he was elected to a seat (rarely to be occupied) in Congress, having run in a "safe" Tammany district. He celebrated by marrying Millicent Willson, from the chorus of The Girl From Paris. It was the snubs they suffered from stuffy upperclass Britons on their...
Pierre Emmanuel delivers a lecture (left) to a large class in the smoking room on Lamont Library's first level, while Bruce A Morton '52 and Gordon J. McKinley record it (right) for the Lowell Institute...