Word: mckinleyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Coolidge acquired ten large balls of yarn and began 18 months' work on a great quilt or bedspread, knitted, to bedeck a fourposter in the state bedroom of the White House. Every mistress of the White House from Dolly Madison to Mrs. McKinley made something to leave behind her in the executive mansion...
Those echoing words won him the next day the Democratic nomination for President. He began his 18,000-mile speaking tour against McKinley and he lost the election. Then came the Spanish War, and he served as Colonel in the Nebraska infantry, although he saw no field service. When 1900 rolled around he was back in the Presidential arena crying "no imperialism" because of the annexation of Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines. Again he was nominated, again defeated by McKinley...
...McKinley, highest protuberance upon the North American continent (20,300 ft.), was ascended in 1912 by Hudson Stuck, then Archdeacon of Alaska...
...hung out a shingle. He married. He fought to be District Attorney of Dane County and won. In 1884, at 29, he was elected to the House of Representatives?the youngest member of that body. He was put on the Ways and Means Committee, and helped Representative William McKinley to write the McKinley Tariff Bill. After six years in the House, he went back to Wisconsin. In 1901, he was elected Governor of that state. He broke the corrupt organization that had ruled the state, and since then has dominated Wisconsin politics. In 1905, he resigned to become...
...doctrine that "all rulers should be exterminated." On Sept. 6, 1901, dressed like a respectable young mechanic, carrying a revolver wrapped in bandages about an appar ently injured hand, he entered the Temple of Music at a Buffalo Exposition. He stood in line to shake hands with President William McKinley. At the appropriate moment, he fired two shots. Police and Secret Service men saved Czolgosz from slaughter by the crowd. Eight days later, McKinley died and 45 days afterwards, Czolgosz, unrepentant, felt 1,700 volts of electricity pass through his body at Auburn prison...