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...first was the death, early in the week, of Senator Felix Jules Meline, 87, dean of French Parliamentarians, Premier during the period of the famed Dreyfus scandal, known as "The McKinley of France" on account of his indefatigable championship of the protective tariff. The passing of M. Meline, it was observed, leaves M. Clémenceau as practically the sole survivor of the group of great French statesmen who were in at the death of the Second Empire and waited as youthful accoucheurs upon the birth of the Third Republic...
...turned the first lap when McKinley made him Comptroller of the Currency. In 1917 he turned the second lap when General Pershing took him on his staff and made him General Purchasing Agent of the A. E. F. After the War he did some first rate arousing when Congress be- gan to question him about purchases for the A. E. .F. and he ejaculated, "Hell 'nd Maria, the Army was sent out to win the War, not to spend days haggling over pennies." He did some more arousing as the first Director of the Budget, when...
Just before going to Washington for last week's opening of Congress, he delivered a speech in Chicago to the representatives of Republican Women's Clubs of Illinois. In the presence of Senators McKinley and Deneen of Illinois, he said...
...hitting the Senators present. Senator McKinley for some time has been preaching what I'm preaching, and I think Senator Deneen is going to do it. If he isn't, he isn't going back to the Senate from this state...
...Senator (in Illinois), for President, but declined to entertain the prospect. Instead he went back to the Pullman Co., and on the death of George W. Pullman in 1897, became its President. It was during this period that he visited the Buffalo Exposition just as President McKinley was shot. He served as President of the Pullman Co. until...