Word: mckinleyism
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Mark Twain Tonight! The stage is a faded daguerreotype, with a high, old-fashioned lectern, a desk with a topply mound of books and a cut-glass pitcher of water, a McKinley-era chair. Into this setting shuffles the spry, white-maned humorist in the white suit. Involuntary tremors ripple the stiffened fingers, the lower jaw nibbles spasmodically at wisps of tobacco-stained mustache, the shoulders twitch like marionettes in the invisible hands of time. But a pagan glint of eye suggests that this is a life less spent than well spent. Then the voice, cracked but not ruined, speaks...
Hawaii's last monarch was Queen Liliuokalani, the buxom, strong-willed sister of Kalakaua, and, like her brother, a cultivated personage (poet, musician, composer of the famed Aloha Oe). Tough-minded Liliuokalani tried to overthrow the constitution as Hawaii plummeted into the depression that followed President McKinley's punishing tariff law on sugar. Around the rugged Queen grew secret societies such as the Annexation Club, and finally, in 1893, a Committee of Safety took possession of the government office building, formed a republic, applied to the U.S. for annexation. Five years later, to the sound...
Informed Alarm. Last week, running the college with casual, kindly autocracy, waving to undergraduates as he stomped about the campus, Carleton's President Laurence McKinley Gould went about the business of finding the money. His method: to bedevil the rich with reports of the U.S.'s conspicuous complacency-much as Economist Thorstein Veblen (Carleton '80) once hounded them with charges of "conspicuous consumption." A scholar who would be concerned about U.S. educational standards if Russia were inhabited solely by musk oxen, Gould does not hesitate to point with alarm at the Red satellites long after the furor...
...former congressman, Wilson a governor, Cox a governor, John W. Davis a corporation lawyer, Smith and Roosevelt, both New York governors, Truman a Vice-President (Lots of vice-presidential material comes from the Senate.), and Stevenson a governor. The Republican nominees are similarly heavily pro-gubernatorial, from McKinley through Dewey...
...even and were sparked in spirit by G.O.P. liberal Nelson Rockefeller's election to the New York governorship. The incoming 34-man G.O.P. minority includes twelve or so liberals, eight or so swingmen, only 14 or so Old Guardsmen still grouped around the flags of Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen, minority whip, front runner for Bill Know-land's old minority-leader job, and New Hampshire's four-term Senator Styles Bridges, 60, Governor of New Hampshire at 36, U.S. Senator at 38, now head of the shadowy G.O.P. Policy Committee and the most powerful Republican...