Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the agitation against the U.S. concerned old Fort McKinley on Manila's southeast outskirts. Fort McKinley, taken out of service after World War II, has been eyed by real-estate promoters who would like to subdivide it. Two years ago Attorney General Brownell rendered an opinion that the U.S. has legal title to Philippine lands bought from private owners; most of Fort McKinley was bought in this manner long before World War I. In the mouths of Filipino extremists, this claim to "title" became a nasty assertion of "sovereignty...
Teddy Roosevelt, when he was picked in 1900, did not stand for the cautious McKinley policies. Neither Mark Hanna nor McKinley wanted Roosevelt, but Senator Platt, the boss of New York State, said, "He will do less damage there than any other spot we could...
...There report on the first of his three nominations for the presidency. Ainslie Pryor, as Bryan, got a rococo fervor into his big "Cross of Gold" speech that captured the deadlocked convention and enabled the Great Commoner to enter-and lose-the presidential race against William McKinley. Circle Theater took another aghast look at Communist intrigue with The Case of Colonel Petrov,who defected two years ago from the Soviet embassy in Australia. As pictured on TV by Michael Gorrin, Petrov seemed far too dumb to have been head of Red espionage down under, and the show spent much...
Before Len Hall was a year old, President McKinley was assassinated, and President Theodore Roosevelt brought his coachman to Washington to be chief messenger at the White House. Franklyn Hall kept his job until his death in 1915, but left his family behind in the roomy house he had built in Oyster Bay, returning home for vacations and occasional holidays. From childhood Len was immersed in politics, and Teddy Roosevelt became and remained his political ideal...
...Theodore Roosevelt was 42 when he succeeded to the presidency upon William McKinley's death m 1901; he was 46 when elected to a full term. On Election Day 1956, Nixon will...