Word: mckinleyism
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...enlightened science and engineering. When Holden's loyal employees crowd around him to seek advice and solace, one longs for the Marley-Scrooge days when employees knew their place. When Holden orates about the necessity for expansion and research in modern industry, one feels a quick sympathy for William McKinley and Mark Hanna...
...Army in its charge that McCarthy and Roy Cohn, his committee counsel, had conducted one of the most outrageous operations in the history of political pressure cooking. Before the week was out, even such staunch conservative Republicans as Michigan's Senator Charles Potter and Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen were throwing verbal brickbats at McCarthy...
Crooned Illinois' Republican Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, who parts his metaphors in the middle: "First we have the winter of discontent, then we hathe balmy breezes of spring, the refreshed earth. When the fishing and voting season comes, tantrums, testiness, gripes begin to fade. That's the time to get the show on the road." This was merely Dirksen's way of saying that he hopes Senator McCarthy will quit tossing tantrums at the G.O.P. Administration in time for the party to take advantage of Joe's touted vote-getting skills...
...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...