Word: mckinleyism
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...TIME of Aug. 17 in commenting on the probable meeting of President Roosevelt and Candidate Landon in Kansas soon, you state in substance that oldsters had to go back to 1896 for a parallel historical precedent - the accidental meeting of McKinley and Bryan in a small Nebraska town...
Next morning in Ohio the Landon special stopped at Lima, Ada, Bucyrus, Crestline, Mansfield (which the Republican nominee did not forget "was the home of John Sherman," sponsor of the Anti-trust Law), and Canton ("The home of truly beloved William McKinley"). Crossing into Pennsylvania, the train, now fairly bursting with local bigwigs, ground to a stop at West Middlesex, where in a small frame house Alfred Mossman Landon was born 49 years ago. Out hopped the spry Governor and strode down the cinder platform to the automobile in which he was to ride with rich and handsome Mrs. Worthington...
...moments wires throughout the U. S. carried the news of how the Democratic and Republican nominees for the Presidency would meet in the midst of the campaign, discuss the non-political subject of Drought. To find an historical precedent, oldsters had to go back to 1896 when William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, both out stumping, met by chance in a small Nebraska town...
...Delta Kappa Epsilon almost simultaneously. He shortstopped for the baseball team and won the University and State tennis championships. He played a clarinet in the University band and fell in love with (and later married) Student Marion Isabel Watrous of Des Moines, Iowa. By the time President McKinley borrowed Michigan's president to be his Minister to Turkey, Son James Rowland was already an up-&-coming psychologist at Chicago, starting the career that was to lead him to one of the half-dozen great academic seats of the nation...
...Republican Party and his own ancestry, which he traces back through 300 years of pioneer U. S. farmers. So regular a Republican is the Iowa Senator that, whereas most agricultural leaders blame much of the farmer's woe on tariff walls, he declares himself "just like William McKinley" on that issue...