Word: mckinleyism
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...have weighed more, but, as he himself observed, "no gentleman weighs more than 200 pounds") overrode the rules and counted silent Democrats, declared a quorum present, although the Democrats refused to answer to the roll call. One day, when the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, William McKinley, was supposed to move adjournment at a certain hour, but had not appeared on the floor, Mr. Reed pounded with his gavel and announced: "The gentleman from Ohio moves that the House do now adjourn"; and then, leaning over the rostrum, called in a stage whisper to the clerk: "Where...
...closing rush of legislation. Promptly Governor Small appointed Mr. Deneen to fill out the five remaining days of Mr. McCormick's term. Mr. Deneen, resting in his Chicago home, discomfited by a cold in the head, rose, girded on his vestments, journeyed to Washington. Next day, Senator McKinley, Illinois colleague, presented Mr. Deneen to the Senate, took him by the arm, escorted him to Senate President Cummins who administered the oath...
Gentlemen: In speaking of the death of Alvin Sherman Wheaton, TIME, Dec. 29, 1924, p. 32, you say there are but two men living who witnessed the assassination of Lincoln. I saw it stated in Forbes Magazine that Robert Lincoln witnessed this event; and also the assassination of McKinley and Garfield. What are the facts...
...bill appropriating $14,750,000 for the construction of a McKinley memorial bridge across the Potomac at Washington from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington. (Went to the House...
...bill to provide for building a bridge (TIME, Aug. 25,. ART) to be called the McKinley Memorial Bridge, across the Potomac from the Lincoln Memorial in the Capital to the Virginia side...