Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from one of my own speeches," said Wendell Willkie last week, reading this little homily at a Republican dinner in his home State of Indiana. He was not; he had just done a little historical sleuthing. The quotation was 41 years old, spoken by none other than President William McKinley, high priest of high tariffs, day before he was shot at Buffalo...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, 85, the Spanish-American War Lieutenant who delivered the famed "message to Garcia"; in the Army's Letterman Hospital in San Francisco. He was sent by President McKinley at war's outbreak to learn from Cuban insurgent General Calixto Garcia the strength of Garcia's forces. He carried his instructions in his head, but uplifter Elbert Hubbard's editorial, A Message to Garcia, put a letter in his hand, later put money in Hubbard's pocket, ultimately sold more than 40,000,000 copies. Rowan's reward...
...Canton's McKinley High School: a football game (35-to-0) against Massillon High; thereby breaking a winning streak of 52 games; before a crowd of 22,000; at Massillon, Ohio. Same day, ex-Massillon Coach Paul Brown, who made the Massillon Tigers into the country's most famed scholastic eleven (TIME, Nov. 2), saw his Ohio State University footballers lick Michigan, 21-to-7, for the Western Conference ("Big Ten") championship...
Illinois's able, forward-looking Representative Everett McKinley Dirksen came up last week with a clear-cut, logical remedy for the time wasted by Army, Navy and Administration bigwigs in giving duplicate testimony before Senate and House committees. His proposal: establish a joint committee on military and naval affairs and appropriations...
This week versatile, 53-year-old Howard Lindsay and puckish, 49-year-old Russel McKinley ("Buck") Crouse had three gold mines on Broadway: Strip for Action (which they wrote), Life With Father (which they adapted), Arsenic and Old Lace (which they produced). They had behind them three musicomedy successes (Anything Goes, Red, Hot and Blue, Hooray for What!). With no failures in six tries, they represent as big a money team as Broadway can boast...