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Teddy Roosevelt, when he was picked in 1900, did not stand for the cautious McKinley policies. Neither Mark Hanna nor McKinley wanted Roosevelt, but Senator Platt, the boss of New York State, said, "He will do less damage there than any other spot we could...
Before Len Hall was a year old, President McKinley was assassinated, and President Theodore Roosevelt brought his coachman to Washington to be chief messenger at the White House. Franklyn Hall kept his job until his death in 1915, but left his family behind in the roomy house he had built in Oyster Bay, returning home for vacations and occasional holidays. From childhood Len was immersed in politics, and Teddy Roosevelt became and remained his political ideal...
...Theodore Roosevelt was 42 when he succeeded to the presidency upon William McKinley's death m 1901; he was 46 when elected to a full term. On Election Day 1956, Nixon will...
Died. Herbert Putnam, 93, longtime (1899-1939) Librarian of Congress; in Woods Hole, Mass. Appointed by President McKinley, Dr. Putnam transformed the library's haphazard collection of less than a million volumes into one of the world's largest (over 10 million books and pamphlets), developed a new system of classification, supervised the purchase of a valuable European collection of incunabula, including a Gutenberg Bible...
Washington's stone gothic Foundry Methodist Church* is a 141-year-old landmark of the national capital. Abraham Lincoln and seven other Presidents (John Quincy Adams, James Madison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James K. Polk, William McKinley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) occasionally worshiped there; Franklin Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill went there on Christmas Day in 1941 to pray. Last week Foundry's pastor for the past 31 years, silver-thatched Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, preached his farewell sermon. At the compulsory retirement age of 72, well-loved Dr. Harris was leaving Foundry to give more time...