Word: mckinleyism
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Originally it was a lifeboat on a yacht belonging to Novelist Zane Grey. They put masts on it and called it a yawl, the Grey Ghost. Fishermen Eli Kelly and James McKinley sailed it out in December and were crippled by a storm. Before the Grey Ghost drifted ashore on Santa Catalina Island, Fishermen McKinley was dead and Fisherman Kelly was, by agreement, a cannibal, still alive but half-crazed (TIME, Jan. 3, 10). Fisherman George McShallis of San Pedro, Calif., salvaged the Grey Ghost and sailed to San Clemente to ply his trade...
Died. Mrs. Nancy Baker, 101, able gingersnap-maker, at Galena, Ill. Her snaps were sampled and praised by Presidents Grant, McKinley, Roosevelt...
...treasury seat. Mr. Gage refused. In 1896, he and other Gold Democrats helped Mark A. Hanna defeat William Jennings Bryan (Silver-tongued Silver Democrat) and, to be polite to the Gold Democrats who voted for his candidate, Mark Hanna gave Mr. Gage the Treasury post in William McKinley's Cabinet. Theodore Roosevelt irked Mr. Gage, and he left the Cabinet as soon after Mr. McKinley's death as it was proper to do so. He had done his work well. Mr. Gage had but two honorary degrees-one from Beloit, one from New York University. He disliked public...
Died. Lyman Judson Gage, 90, onetime Secretary of the Treasury under McKinley and Roosevelt; of pneumonia, at San Diego...
...other universities; at Brookline, Mass. His great work was a painstaking history of the U. S. which appeared intermittently between 1893 and 1920, and finally emerged in a revised edition of eight volumes: A History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaigns of 1896. The Berlin Academy of Science awarded him the Loubat prize in 1901, and in 1918 he won the Pulitzer prize for history...