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Beyond the Pale. Taylor's biography fully illuminates a woman whose antipathy was by no means limited to booze. "Stated loosely," the author writes, "Mrs. Nation was against alcohol, tobacco, sex, politics, government (national, state and local), the Masonic Lodge, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan." At one time or another, she delivered haymakers against them all. "I never saw anything that needed a rebuke, or exhortation, or warning," she explained, "but that I felt it my place to meddle with...
...ALASKA GOVERNOR Egan (D)* uncertain Hickel (R) U.S. SENATOR Bartlett (D)* (winner) McKinley...
Slightly Embarrassing. The Fort Worth prosecutor promptly tested McKinley Powell, 36, another Negro truck driver, who had been accused of murder last June. Powell also passed-whereupon his accuser confessed the crime. The day after Powell's release, the prosecutor tested Donald G. Carter, 19, who had spent three months in jail awaiting trial for a burglary that he insisted he did not commit. Carter also passed; the police rechecked his story and belatedly discovered that he was telling them the truth from the start: he was in state prison on another charge at the time of the burglary...
Great Experiment. American colonialism in the Philippines was a novel exercise in "enlightened imperialism." When the former Spanish colony dropped suddenly into Admiral Dewey's hands on May 1, 1898, President William McKinley was so surprised that, as he later said, "I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance." He needed it, for the Aguinaldo bolomen would have tried the patience of the most saintly President. Like the Viet Cong, the Filipino terrorists were experts at ambush, using bamboo cannon loaded with scrap iron in place of Charley's captured Claymore mines. Hatred...
...Tank. In 1937, at the age of 50, Kirwan came to Washington from Youngstown, elected to the congressional seat once held by Presidents James Garfield and William McKinley. Despite his double negatives and other grammar gaps, he was re-elected 14 times, thereby earning enough seniority on the Appropriations Committee to become the House's undisputed Prince of Pork. Kirwan is never loath to combat a political foe by lidding his barrel. Four years ago, when Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse voted against a $10 million aquarium for the District of Columbia-a pet Kirwan project-Mike simply...