Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to be half right-and Vice President." But it wasn't all right. Calhoun quit in disgust and got elected to the Senate. Teddy Roosevelt referred to his election to the vice presidency as "taking the veil." Later, when he had succeeded President McKinley, Teddy was annoyed by the tinkling of the enormous "Jefferson chandelier" in his office, and ordered it removed. "Take it to the office of the Vice President," he said. "He doesn't have anything to do. It will keep him awake." The trouble is that the Constitution does not give the Vice President...
...York banker who was one of the richest men of his day, picked the wrong term to be Vice President (with Benjamin Harrison). He turned down a chance at the Republican nomination in 1880 (he might have succeeded Garfield), and another chance in 1896 (he might have succeeded McKinley). Morton was an efficient fund-raiser for his party, entertained lavishly at his town and country houses, kept a herd of purebred cattle, tried to popularize milk by saying: "I serve milk alternately with champagne-one costs the same as the other." Alternating milk with champagne, he lived...
...Only twelve others have lain in state in the Capitol rotunda: Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, John A. Logan, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Admiral George Dewey, the Unknown Soldier of World War I, Warren G. Harding, General John J. Pershing, and Robert Taft's father...
TIME and Apostle Benson apparently accept the McKinley-Hoover philosophy of the inequality of man-that the man who uses his hands, whether with a machine or in the soil, should not be considered a participant in the bounty of America. It is conveniently forgotten that the farmer's aid from Government is an infinitesimal fraction of the great bounties bestowed upon manufacturing and business interests from Grant to Hanna and from Lodge to Hoover...
...Much for Mules? In 1896, Presidential Candidate McKinley asked Dawes to handle his campaign funds. Dawes raised and spent the formidable sum of $37562,325.59. From then on, U.S. Presidents got the habit of calling on Charley Dawes. In World War I, he handled the purchase of more than ten million ship tons of supplies for Europe. Under Harding, he was an economizing Director of the Budget, ran his own bureau for almost half of its $225,000 appropriation ("We took our own medicine"). Under Hoover, he served as Ambassador to Britain and helped to draft the Administration...