Word: mckinleyism
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...League majority, flatly disagreeing with Chairman Janssen, was headed by Economist George Bassett Roberts of Manhattan's National City Bank, successor on the commission to his father George Evan Roberts, who was director of the U. S. Mint under Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Upholding the gold standard, the majority, or Roberts report, urged every nation that can do so to stick to gold, flayed proposals for bimetallism or a return to the silver standard...
...program follows in full: March, "Queen of Sheba", Gounod; "Dence Macabre, Symphonic Poem", Saint-Saens; Suite from "Carmen", Bizet; "Facade", Walton; Piano Concerto No. 1, in F sharp minor, First Movement, Rachmaninoff; "California", Tone Poem, Converse; Overture to "Oberon", Weber; Masquerade, "An American Rhapsody", McKinley; "By the Beautiful Blue Danube", Waltz, Strauss; Ride of the Valkyries", Wagner...
...State. President Hoover accepted an invitation to the services. There was plenty of precedent. President McKinley dedicated in 1898 the Cathedral's large Peace Cross, symbolizing the end of the Spanish-American War. President Roosevelt helped lay the foundation stone in 1907. The service Woodrow Wilson attended on the Sunday following the Armistice in 1918 was considered the nation's religious observance of that event. After the opening of the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armaments in November 1921, President Harding led all its 34 delegates to a special Cathedral service through the Bethlehem Chapel doorway over which is carved...
...Speaker of the House; of old age; in Springfield, Ohio. Educated under the regime of the late, great President Horace Mann of Antioch College, he rose to fame as a divisional commander for General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, was four times wounded. During the Spanish War. President McKinley appointed him Major General of volunteers, and he was later elected 1st Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish War Veterans. As Speaker of the House he formulated the Cloture rule. A determined foe of war, he addressed the Conference on Universal Peace at Brussels in 1911, was a U. S. representative...
Roosevelt addressed the Vermont sportsmen the evening of Sept. 6. Just as he was finishing, word came that McKinley had been shot. He rushed at once to Buffalo, stayed two days. Then, when the President's physicians declared their patient out of danger, the Vice President joined his family in the Adirondacks. As reported by TIME, it was in the Adirondacks, while he was climbing Mount Tahawus Sept. 13. that word reached Roosevelt of McKinley's impending death, which came before Roosevelt reached Buffalo...