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...Illinois Traction System (the longest electric raliway in the world)-manufacturer, financier, "clubman" (he belong to clubs in Boston, Detroit, Manhattan, Chicago). The corporations are: 1) the North American Light and Power Co. of Studebaker (value $200,000,000), 2) The North American Co. in which Studebaker and Senator McKinley of Illinois are jointly interested (value $525,000,000), 3) The Middle West Utilities Corp. of Samuel Insull (value $425,000,000). Their aggregate earnings last year were almost...
...hauled down the U. S. flag and demanded the restoration of the Queen if she would promise good behavior. Across 2,000 miles of water and 3,000 miles of land, President Dole faced President Cleveland and refused to abandon Hawaiian democracy to any king or queen. When McKinley was inaugurated in 1897, a new treaty of annexation was drawn and ratified. Sanford B. Dole, the President, became Sanford B. Dole, the Territorial Governor?and so he ruled for six years longer...
...Politicians everywhere will take notice of the result and act accordingly. Every staunch supporter of the Administration-McKinley, Pepper, Stanfield, Cummins-who has come up for nomination this season has been defeated- four blows at Coolidge prestige. Furthermore it means that Iowa farmers, at least, are aroused because they have not had the kind of farm relief they want-and Congress is likely to judge all farmer sentiment by Iowa, so that the chances of the passage of a farm relief bill before Congress adjourns are greatly increased...
Senator Stanfield is the third Administration Senator to go by the board, to become a lame duck: first McKinley of Illinois (TIME, April 26), then Pepper of Pennsylvania, then Stanfield...
...sell chewing gum on shipboard than to sell chewing tobacco, which has always been sold. They argued that a piece of chicle, delicately flavored and injected into the mouth of a gob (except when in ranks) not only was harmless, but promoted efficiency and "good morals." It was Senator McKinley, lame duck from Illinois, who finally prevailed upon the higher officers of the Navy to believe these arguments. At least one of Senator McKinley's constituents (William Wrigley Jr. of Chicago) grinned broadly. He has always been in favor of good morals in the Navy...