Word: mckinleyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some people just cannot swallow the idea of coercing a worker to join a union-and one of them is Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen. A formidable foe when his dander is up, Dirksen recently went to the White House and, in a now famous confrontation, told Johnson that out of intense personal conviction he was immovably opposed to repeal of 14(b). Indeed, said Ev, he hoped to keep the Senate from voting on the bill through "extended debate"-a Dirksenism for filibuster. "My God," said the President, "you wouldn't do that to me." Replied...
...until the turn-of-the-century Administration of outdoor-loving Teddy Roosevelt that the country got into preservation in a big way. Influenced early in life by Muir and later by Gifford Pinchot, McKinley's chief forester, Roosevelt began by pressing for water conservation in the arid West. He won the power to establish the nation's natural and historical treasures as national monuments, then ingeniously outflanked an attempt to wipe out many of the nation's national forests. Faced with a forest-eliminating rider to a bill for much-needed funds, Teddy responded with wilderness-bred...
...made a freshman member of the U.S. Davis Cup team. He did not see much cup action, but under Davis Cup Coach Pancho Gonzales, he has so improved his control that he is now rated the third best amateur in the U.S., after Dennis Ralston and Chuck McKinley...
Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, LL.D. Statesman, scholar, and orator without peer...
...Vice Presidents, respectively, under Hayes, Monroe, McKinley, Grant. *Holding Bible, Humphrey's longtime friend, Minneapolis Businessman Fred Gates. *Luci, the White House disclosed last week, "has been taking instruction in the Roman Catholic faith." The President is a member of the Disciples of Christ, but the two Johnson daughters and Lady Bird are Episcopalians. Since "the family considers religion a personal and individual matter," the White House provided no further details, but was careful to point out that Luci's taking instruction does not necessarily mean that she intends to become a convert. Paul Betz, who "pinned...