Word: mckinleyism
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...when he played for the Jubilee two years ago. Now he's on the way up again. Never attaining the big success his "Beat Me Daddy" record seemed to augur for him, he lost many of his outstanding men and finally parted company with his partner, the drummer Ray McKinley, who now has his own band. I, heard the revamped Bradley group on the air a few nights, ago, and found it a nice, pleasant orchestra, not greatly different from a bevy of other orchestras. They didn't play much jazz that night, but their numbers were delivered smoothly...
When war came, President Cowling surveyed his faculty for possible military use fulness, struck a surprisingly rich vein : e.g., Astronomer Edward A. Fath, who turned out to be one of the foremost U.S. experts in celestial navigation; Geographer Laurence McKinley Gould, a top-notch map man and navigator who was second in command of Admiral Byrd's first Ant arctic expedition; Physicist Charles...
...McKinley High School
...LLOYD MCKINLEY HARMON...
...vast discomfort of the Chicago Tribune, which had often hailed him as a hero, Representative Everett McKinley Dirksen a Republican from Pekin, Ill., longtime, profound Roosevelt-hating Isolationist, solemnly proclaimed on the floor the House his future support of the President's policy. He added, amid silence and Republican consternation: "To disavow or oppose that policy now could only weaken the President's position, impair prestige and imperil the nation...