Word: mckinleyism
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...line-up: HARVARD. COLUMBIA. Goepper, g. g., McIntosh Leavitt, p. i.h., Turpin Estabrook, c.p. o.h., McKinley Thompson, 1d. 1a., Ackerman Downer, Nash, 2d. 2a., Kudlich Cochrane, 3d. 3a., Spencer Alexander, c. c., Tough S. Smith, 3a. 3d., Bernstein Beals, 2a. 2d., Jennings R. P. Smith, 1a. 1d., Crott Sheip, o.h. c.p., Hoag Porter, i.h. p., Mudd
...just to wait for the time when they should become senators, but most of these have been disappointed. Yet a number of the most eminent men in the history of the country say service in the House, among whom we might mention the four Presidents, Madison, Polk, Garfield, and McKinley...
...embassy, with the result that the man chosen to fill a vacancy has to be in the first place acceptable to the foreign government. In this country the president makes the appointments to all the diplomatic offices, but his choice has to be passed by the senate. Since President McKinley's administration men have been appointed who have had previous training, and in Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, and Japan a strict preparation is required of each candidate. These men advance step by step through the different grades of the profession...
...only been thrown at our naval officers; it has even reached our greatest presidents. Lincoln, bearing the troubles of a great war upon his shoulders, was mercilessly reviled; Grant was attacked; McKinley, at the crisis of the Spanish War, was fiercely slandered by the papers. Today Theodore Roosevelt, fearless and straightforward, is being criticised on all sides...
...Five years later he went with the Wellman polar expedition. He also travelled to Spitzbergen in order to go with Andree in his balloon trip over the Arctic Sea, but the balloonist had started northward the day before his arrival. During one of these expeditions he built Fort McKinley...