Word: mckinleyism
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...Smith, out in Illinois, Senator-elect Col. and Sen Frank L. Smith, Senator-elect and Senator-designate for the unexpired term of the late Senator McKinley, is debating Senator whether he should soon come knocking at the Senate door. His lawyer returned from Washington last week with the sad news that only 25 Republicans and four Democrats are willing to vote to seat...
...Heard that Col. Frank L. Smith of Illinois had accepted Governor Small's appointment to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator McKinley. Twenty-one Republican Senators and nearly all the Democrats are planning to deny him a seat...
Smith. If Governor Small of Illinois should appoint Senator-elect Smith to fill out the late Senator McKinley's term in the 69th Congress, the fight to oust him would create such a broil that important legislation would be sidetracked and President Coolidge would probably be forced to call a special session of the 70th Congress. Hence, regular Republicans are urging Colonel Smith not to accept the appointment and Governor Small not to offer...
Died. William Brown McKinley, 70, Senator from Illinois; at the Homelawn Sanitarium, Martinsville, Ind., of prostatic cancer. Millionaire businessman of Illinois; 14 years Congressman; Manager of President Taft's unsuccessful 1912 campaign; elected Senator in 1921; he was defeated last spring by Senator-elect Smith. Few knew that for 30 years he was loyal to a wife whom he rarely...
...pearls on the table, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. He taught them beauty in gems and they bought for their women. Some began to buy for investment, for he proved how the values of precious stones mount. His son Michael had even a finer genius for matching jewels. Mrs. McKinley, wife of the one time President, loved to come to their store. She would be dressed in a slim-waisted jacket, with leg-of-mutton sleeves, an amiable gentlewoman whom Michael adored. One day she gave him a carnation. He wanted to pin it to his father's lapel...