Word: mckinleyism
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...present hour, will visit Marion and make a speech. He will help Marion and the Nation dedicate the Harding sepulchre, even as President Roosevelt entered Ohio in September, 1907, to make a speech at Canton and dedicate what was then "Ohio's Shrine", the sepulchre of William McKinley...
Died. Joseph Green Butler Jr., 87, a creator of the Mahoning Valley steel industry; at Youngstown, Ohio. Iron and steel men called him "Uncle Joe." President McKinley had called him friend; they had attended village school together in Niles, Ohio...
...Last week came the decision-the late Oscar Solomon Straus (1850-1926), diplomat. He was the friend and aid of four U. S. Presidents. For Grover Cleveland he went to Turkey as U. S. Minister; at Constantinople he protected the U. S. mission schools & colleges. For William McKinley he again went to Turkey as Minister. William Howard Taft sent him there a third time, as Ambassador. Meanwhile he had served as Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor. President Roosevelt appointed him a U. S. member to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in 1902 and again...
...fight!" In 1856, Republicans punned: "Free soil, free speech, free men and Fremont." A resounding, if somewhat vague, slogan was Theodore Roosevelt's cry in 1912: "We stand at Armageddon and fight for the Lord." This was far less successful than the gluttonous Republican shout of 1896: "McKinley and the full dinner pail!" And the 1916 Wilson motto: "He kept us out of war!" One of the most successful slogans of all time was Warren G. Harding's "Back to normalcy," embarrassingly illiterate but far more euphonious than "Back to normality" would have been...
...frequent standee at the "Met," learning the ways of Melba, Calvé, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszké, learning to her greater advantage what pleased the purse-poor folk around her who scarcely missed a performance. She studied a year in Washington, was taken one afternoon to call on Mrs. McKinley. News came: DEWEY VICTORIOUS AT MANILA?and Farrar, still the Student, sat down at the piano, played and sang the "Star Spangled Banner...