Word: mckinleyism
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...could pull most strings. It took them two years to turn the tide of public opinion against Cook and in their favor. Cook fought back, but he was his own worst enemy. He had seriously damaged his credibility in 1906 with a photograph purporting to show him atop Mount McKinley-an assertion that has never been satisfactorily proved. His last great misadventure was as an oil-stock promoter in Texas, where a mail-fraud scandal got him five years in Leavenworth...
Martha, the unrepressed Southern belle, once took great pride in the fact that John Mitchell-her second husband, whom she married in 1957-was one of Nixon's closest advisers. Martha delighted in sounding off against anyone to the left of William McKinley -Senator J. William Fulbright, for example, should be "crucified." Few took any of this too seriously, for Martha had a certain wacky charm...
Died. Bessie Greenwood Brown, 92, operatic soprano whose most memorable performance was a practice session in 1901 that attracted President William McKinley to the concert hall at the Pan-America Exposition in Buffalo, where an assassin mortally wounded him; in Buffalo...
...mock ballot for presidential candidates closed last evening at 6 p.m., The vote was unexpectedly large and gives a clear idea of the opinion of Harvard students. The overwhelming victory for McKinley was in a measure expected, and the chief surprise was that Palmer should have secured so much larger a vote than Bryan. It is also interesting to observe that Massachusetts cast more than half of the total number of votes, and that Bryan secured as large a proportion of votes in this state as in any other. The vote of the day was 462, a slight falling...
...McKinley and Hobart, 1489 Palmer and Buckner, 327 Bryan and Sewall, 108 Lovering and Johnson, 2 Total number of votes cast...