Word: mckinleyism
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...most brilliant records in Academy history, he had eight years later been put in charge of important harbor improvements at Savannah. To professional distinction he added the social prestige of marriage to the daughter of a rich onetime business associate of the Vanderbilts. In 1897 President McKinley appointed him Engineers' Corps representative on the American Canal Commission and military attache at the Court of St. James's. Few weeks later his career was ended abruptly by a scandal which humiliated the Army, filled the Press for months...
...armed bodyguards to pepper his body. From all reports he could have been tied up, taken to jail, and given a fair trial. Courts act quickly in such cases. This is what happened to Zangara, the would-be assassin of President Roosevelt, and to the slayers of Garfield and McKinley; yet the scene in the Louisiana state capitol resembled the settling of accounts between rival gangs...
...piece and is, thereafter, in a state of almost continual collapse. Abraham Lincoln is master of ceremonies in a scene on the banks of the Potomac in 1865 which features a uniformed tenor singing "There's Moonlight in a Kiss" to a girl in crinoline. When President McKinley manifests an interest in Hawaiian music, one Bert Lynn favors with some plaintive strumming on his patented device known as the Vibrolynn...
...September afternoon in 1901, President McKinley stood in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, smiling wearily toward the crowd that surged forward to grasp his hand. Beside him a stern, square-jawed young man was waving the people away. ''Oh, let them in," said the President to his personal secretary. "They've come a long ways. I'll be glad to meet them." Obediently the secretary stood aside until the room was filled, then stepped down to close the door. He did not notice a calm, boyish-looking man who slipped...
...service. Reluctant to see him go, the trustees nonetheless voted to adopt the retirement plan, effective July 1. Next Jan. 29, for the first time in a quarter of a century, George Bruce Cortelyou will not be on hand at his office to celebrate the anniversary of William McKinley's birth by sending each department head a red carnation, favorite flower of his old employer...