Word: mckinleyism
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...centre of the President's room just off the Senate lobby. He was still President of the U..S. with work to do. An enormous wall mirror reflected the drawn tired lines in his face as he hunched over a stack of bills laid before him. William McKinley (in bronze) glowered out of a corner. Down through the heavy tracery of a chandelier "The Eye of God'' painted on the ceiling was fixed upon the grey Hoover head as it bent to its task. Around the mosaic floor stood Senators, Representatives, Cabinet members, military aides, clerks...
...broughams, ladies wore tiaras and insisted on heavy white gloves when in Box No. 8, the fourth from the stage on the right, Lizzie P. Bliss began entertaining on Monday nights at the Opera. Lizzie Bliss was a gracious hostess. In Washington she entertained for her father when President McKinley persuaded him to leave his wholesale dry-goods business long enough to serve a term as Secretary of the Interior. Cornelius Newton Bliss Jr. was part owner of the Diamond Horseshoe Box but New York has known him more for his charitable work-with the Red Cross, the New York...
...himself said that he was in better physical condition when he left the White House than when he entered it." Only six of the 29 past Presidents were younger than Calvin Coolidge's 60 years when they died, and three of the six died by assassination- Lincoln, Garneld, McKinley. Average life span of the Presidents has been 68.7 years, average period after first assuming otiice 13.3 years...
Lincoln, Garneld and McKinley were autopsied. But Mrs. Coolidge wanted her husband interred intact...
...electroscopes by airplane to measure cosmic rays over Peru, the U. S., Canada; Dr. Compton's journeying with an electroscope around the Pacific and over North America from Mexico City to north of Churchill on Hudson Bay; two young men killed carrying a cosmic ray scope up Mt. McKinley; Professor Auguste Piccard & aide ballooning into the stratosphere ten miles above Switzerland; Professor Erich Regener sending a free balloon with an electroscope 17½ miles above Stuttgart...