Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Number 15 was Columbus' Neil House, called "the little Capitol of Ohio" (it's right across High Street from the real Capitol building), also crusty with political legend. Here William Henry Harrison made his headquarters in the "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" campaign of 1840; William McKinley lived there as governor. Other guests: Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley. The present structure, fourth on the same site, was built in 1923, has 700 rooms. It does an annual business of more than $2,000,000-which is just what Connie Hilton paid...
...Fairbanks last week, 100 miles from the Arctic Circle, shirt-sleeved President Bunnell watched his 335 students trudge to their classes in knee-deep snow and 30-below temperatures. They were so used to the view that only a few paused to look off at 20,300-ft. Mt. McKinley, in the distance, copper-red in the glare of a dead-of-winter sun. Skis stuck in the snow made picket fences around the dorms...
...sixth night of the coal strike, the President faced another ordeal: the first full-dress U.S. diplomatic dinner in seven years. The 90 guests used gold cutlery from McKinley's time, and china designed by Franklin Roosevelt. The dinner, with turkey as the main course, was called "a good American meal." Harry Truman, who dislikes white tie & tails, wore them well, was apparently at ease and smooth and amiable with the starchy, beribboned envoys. The diplomats agreed they had had a nice evening, and pretty informal, after...
Died. Gifford Pinchot, 81, opinionated oldtime Progressive Republican, pioneer conservationist and Forestry chief under McKInley, Roosevelt I and Taft (1898-1910), who helped found the Bull Moose Party in 1912 and, despite opposition by G.O.P. bosses, was twice elected Pennsylvania's governor (1923-27, 1931-35); of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, Harvard 1854, nephew of J.R.L., killed in action in 1864 at Cedar Creek, Va., an engagement in which Captain William McKinley and Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes also fought. Had Lowell survived, suggests Greenslet, he might have been a better bet for the White House than either, and "Massachusetts would have had a president midway between John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge...