Word: mckinleyism
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Anarchists killed U.S. President William McKinley, not to mention a host of European royalty. Even seemingly contemporary techniques of terror have been tested by time. Rebellious Bedouins seized French planes in the 1920s. The first in-flight skyjacking took place in 1931, when a plane was commandeered by antiregime forces during a coup in Peru...
...foreigners. Of the seven top attractions for visitors from abroad, six are National Parks: Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Mount McKinley, Redwood, Hawaii Volcanoes and Everglades. Third on the list and the only non-park is Niagara Falls...
...William McKinley's revenge," muttered one Buffalo resident as he squinted through the slits of his frosted face-mask at the snow-encrusted monument to the President who was assassinated in the city in 1901. That explanation made as much sense as any. The 435,000 inhabitants of what local CBers call Nickel City could not help wondering why they and their rural neighbors had been selected for the vengeful Winter of '77's most punishing assault so far. In fact, Buffalo's location on a narrow peninsula, where it catches moisture-laden winds off Lake...
...Europe. Brought together under the title The Lumiere Years, these shorts apparently turned up after seventy years sitting in a trunk in the loft of an abandoned garage in Southern France. The shots of the Paris Exposition, the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and a film of President McKinley preparing to invade Cuba constitute some of America's earliest documentary by two of movies' first greats...
Assassinated shortly after reelection, McKinley was succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt, whom Hanna called a "crazy man." With an unrivaled showmanship and zest for office, T.R. became the best coalition builder since Lincoln, attracting workers and farmers, reformers and imperialists. He borrowed from the Progressive program to curtail the growing power of the trusts, regulate the railroads, establish standards for food and drugs, and set aside public land for conservation. He strengthened his hold on the electorate by showing the flag around the world. "I took the [Panama] Canal Zone," he boasted...