Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader. Taking Knowland at his word, Carlson made the nomination. The G.O.P. conference selected Knowland as minority leader, Styles Bridges as policy committee chairman, Eugene Millikin as caucus chairman, and Lev Saltonstall as whip-all without opposition. Still to be chosen was a replacement for Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, who is stepping down as Republican Senate campaign committee chairman...
...selected the three Republicans on the censure committee, he was doing nothing whatever to support their recommendations. Instead, he was helping those Senators who wanted to soften the censure resolution. This group included most of the other Republicans who hold official leadership positions in the Senate. Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, was the chief strategist in the move to soften censure, and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, president pro tempore, stood shoulder to shoulder with Dirksen; Michigan's Homer Ferguson, chairman of the Policy Committee, and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, whip...
...national defense argument used in the Swiss watch case is a timely reminder that present-day support for trade restrictions often has a much broader basis for argument than oldfashioned, McKinley-style business protectionism. Trade barriers sometimes arise out of Socialist concern for national planning and sometimes, as in this case, out of military considerations...
...Alaskan Railroad during a summer vacation five years ago, liked it, and stayed to take his degree in geology at the University of Alaska. Drafted, he was assigned to the Army Arctic Training Center at Big Delta. Pfc. Argus climbed a lot, but nothing really big until he tried McKinley with three friends, all former fellow students: Elton Thayer, the leader, a McKinley Park ranger and experienced mountaineer; Morton Wood; pilot and homesteader, who had assaulted the peak before, but failed; Pfc. Leslie Viereck of Ladd Air Force Base...
Next day a helicopter picked George Argus off the lower slopes. Wood and Viereck had gone to McKinley Park headquarters for the "toughest part" of their ordeal: telling Thayer's widow of her husband's death. She asked that no more lives be risked to recover his body, buried on the avalanche-ridden slope. "He loved mountains, and that's where he'd want to stay," she said...