Word: mckinleyism
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...Senators McKinley and Curtis called at the White House and recommended that the TJ. S. Shipping Board should be abolished and its functions transferred to the Department of Commerce. On the same day Commissioner Benson of the Board issued a report advocating that the Government build two 30,000-ton passenger liners for service with the Leviathan and lay out an annual program for 20,000 cargo tons. Next day Secretary Hoover let it be known that he did not care to have the Shipping
...special meeting of the Council of the Union was held at the Hotel Pennsylvania, and it was decided: 1) that the U. S. was within its rights in excluding (TIME, Sept. 28 CABINET) Saklat-vala, British Communist delegate to the meeting; and 2) that U. S. Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois should be presiding officer of the meetings in Washington...
Finally they were marshalled in the Pennsylvania Hotel and again in the Pennsylvania station, and Senator McKinley, President of the U. S. section of the Union, got them aboard a special train. It was an unusual train, several baggage cars, three diners, and the rest day coaches. (Congress appropriated $50,000 for entertainment, which was not enough to pay for parlor cars...
Baron Theodore Adlswaerd, President of the Union's Council and Swedish senator, introduced Senator McKinley who exclaimed...
...education was not finished; it went right on in politics. Four years later he was delegate-at-large from Georgia to the Republican National Convention that first nominated McKinley. Every four years since then he held the same post, although in 1920, and again a year ago, unsuccessful attempts were made to unseat him. He gradually became dominant in Republican politics in Georgia, where he essayed the dual role of lawyer and dispenser of patronage. All attempts to unseat him were fruitless. He was a very able, rough and terrible debater. Besides, he had the gift of eloquence as only...