Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many as a friend of the people. He muckraked the trusts, exposed Standard Oil for bribing Senators, campaigned for the eight-hour day (which Hearst properties ignored), woman suffrage, public ownership-and, of course, for circulation. In 1901 he was hanged in effigy as an inciter of McKinley's assassination, but a year later he was elected to a seat (rarely to be occupied) in Congress, having run in a "safe" Tammany district. He celebrated by marrying Millicent Willson, from the chorus of The Girl From Paris. It was the snubs they suffered from stuffy upperclass Britons on their...
Pierre Emmanuel delivers a lecture (left) to a large class in the smoking room on Lamont Library's first level, while Bruce A Morton '52 and Gordon J. McKinley record it (right) for the Lowell Institute...
...return for his unflagging idealism and perseverance, he received appointments that were largely drudgery: secretary to two governors of Ohio (Asa Bushnell and William McKinley), to a mayor of Columbus; member of a committee to investigate hazing at West Point; state organizer for Teddy Roosevelt's unsuccessful Bull Moose campaign for the presidency in 1912, etc. In a piece called Gentleman from Indiana, Jim has written lovingly and beautifully of his father...
Died. Charles Gates Dawes, 85, 30th U.S. Vice President (under Calvin Coolidge) ; of coronary thrombosis; in Evanston, Ill. Son of a Civil War general and descendant of the William Dawes who rode with Paul Revere, he broke into politics by leading Illinois' Republican delegation into the McKinley camp in 1896, was appointed Comptroller of the Currency as a reward far his efforts. In World War I, his good friend, General John J. Pershing, made him chief purchasing officer for the A.E.F. and a brigadier general. After the war, Dawes urged the appointment of a national budget director, became, under...
...while I was on the rail, Watching Deitsch (7-2), Tortenson (4-I), and Edge (S-2) working the course, my friend Terror Mike was casing this McKinley nag. Mike says she took the High Jump back in Sheboygan, and that she says she's very limber. But Mike says to me, "Clocker," he says, "Who ever saw a doll who could race...