Word: mckinleyism
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...outstanding Congressional upset in the Ohio primary came in the 9th (Toledo) District where big, white-haired Republican Representative William Wallace Chalmers, weaseling on Prohibition, lost to Wilbur McKinley White, managing editor of the Toledo Times, an out-&-out Wet. Chalmers' defeat was a direct blow to Chalmers' prime supporter, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown. Toledo's G. O. P. boss. Nominee White's paper's rival, the Toledo -Blade, turned Wet, supported...
...Manhattan lawyer, counsel for the New York Stock Exchange, onetime defender of trusts (old Standard Oil, Union Pacific R.R.), president of Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition (1901), father of famed Poloist Devereux Milburn; three weeks after the death of his wife, Mary Stocking Milburn; in London. When President McKinley was shot by Assassin Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo on Sept. 6, 1901, it was to the Milburn home that he was carried, there that he died one week later...
Married. Mrs Josephine Alger Cheney, granddaughter of the late General Russell Alexander Alger, McKinley secretary of war (1897-99); and D. Dwight Douglas, president of First National Bank of Detroit; at York Harbor...
...Harding appears on the 1½c stamp, Washington on the 2c, Lincoln on the 3c, Roosevelt on the 5c, Garfield on the 6c, McKinley on the 7c. Grant on the 8c, Jefferson on the 9c, Monroe on the 10c, Hayes on the 11c, Cleveland on the 12c, Harrison on the 13c, Wilson...
Theosophists. On Point Loma is the International Headquarters of the vast Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, founded in Manhattan in 1875 by Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, long led by the late Katherine Tingley. The late Lyman Judson Gage, San Diego banker, Secretary of the Treasury in the McKinley and Roosevelt Cabinets, was an ardent Point Loma Theosophist. The cult attempts to harmonize with all great faiths, but is deeply colored in its observances and specific modes of thought by Eastern philosophers and prophets. In glass-domed buildings on Point Loma children may attend a Theosophical school. Excellent is the musical...