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Robert P. Skinner of Massillon, Ohio, to be Ambassador to Turkey. A career diplomat, Ambassador Skinner got his first appointment from President McKinley. In 1903 he established diplomatic relations with Abyssinia by riding into Addis Ababa on a white...
...Jersey College for Women Mrs. Garret Augustus Hobart, widow of McKinley's Vice President Doctor of Philanthropy...
...when William McKinley called him to Washington to become Comptroller of the Currency, Brother Charles called Brother Rufus up from Marietta to run his gas companies. When he came back to found Central Trust Co. of Illinois in 1902, Rufus became cashier. Brother Henry came along a few years later, has been on the job ever since. Brother Beman was the family playboy. The others graduated from Marietta College at 19; Beman did not graduate at all. He organized one of the nation's great oil companies (Pure Oil), then left most of its management to Henry. Beman preferred...
...then he was 41 and taking himself really seriously as a social force. From then it seems he was taken seriously by society and his hangings-in-effigy after McKinley's death mark the crystallization in the U. S. mind of the idea that Hearst was sinister. The machinery which he built for Bryan he deliberately used later to carry himself toward the White House where he felt, doubtless sincerely, his "new journalism" could best serve The People. The measures he introduced in Congress (1903-07) were truly liberal in conception, but despite his lavish torchlit campaigns for Mayor...
Opera director, whose sister was the late famed Art Patron Lizzie P. Bliss, and whose father was William McKinley's Secretary of the Interior. Disliking cats, Bride Parkinson had been sympathetic when her servants complained of nightly prowling & yowling. She decided to act when some cats leaped through her windows while she was entertaining dinner guests. She got a trap from the International Cat Investigating Society (to which Lawyer Herrick, then New York City's Park Commissioner, had sent a letter of encouragement when it formed in 1931 to agitate for licensing of the city...