Word: mckinleyism
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...Professor of Agriculture at Ames was one James Wilson, destined four years later to enter upon a 16-year service as Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Professor Wilson had seen young Wallace's articles, talked with him, induced him to return to Ames and finish out his two remaining years of study. This Wallace did ?in a twelvemonth?and in 1893 he was appointed Professor Wilson's assistant...
Died. Herman H. Kohlsaat, 71, famed editor; at the home of Secretary of Commerce Hoover, where he was visiting, in Washington, D. C., following a stroke of paralysis. The friend of five Presidents-McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, four of whom are now dead-he started his career as a caterer, later selling the chain of restaurants, which he controlled, and entering the newspaper field in Chicago. He owned and edited at different times the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Times-Herald, Record-Herald, Evening Post. His services to the Republican cause brought him into contact with many a famed man, made...
...much popularity. He was strongly opinionated. In a pinch, his orthodoxy could not be depended upon. So he was placed, in spite of himself, on the vice-presidential shelf, there to end his political career. Had it not been for the unfortunate death of President McKinley, Roosevelt would have been in 1904, politically dead...
...project is not new; Andrew jackson, Daniel Webster,* President McKinley favored it. And whoever is President in 1929 of 1930 may have the Opportunity of seeing it opened...
...were held by the Grand Lodge members. John G. Price, of Columbus, O., was singled out and installed to succeed James G. McFarland, of Watertown, S. D., as Grand Exalted Ruler. John was described: "a self-made American . . . formerly a letter-carrier in Canton, O., the home of President McKinley. . . . He counted the late 'Chief Executive among his friends. When Mr. McKinley went to the White House he made a place for Mr. Price in the Post Office Department. While filling this position (a minor one) Mr. Price studied law at Georgetown University, and later took up the practice...