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...parents felt the pioneering urge and took him to California shortly after the first wave of the gold rush. There young Joseph found a home, a schooling, a wife, a passion for the law. In 1885 he was first elected to Congress, began his friendship with Representative William McKinley. As everyone knows, Mr. McKinley became President and appointed Mr. McKenna his Attorney General. The Supreme Court was the next step...
...Reed Rules" drawn up in 1890 by Speaker Thomas B. ("Tsar") Reed, Representatives William McKinley and Joseph Cannon. * Founded by Joseph Cannon and his brother half a century ago, it made them worth more than a million dollars...
...Theodore Roosevelt '80, should be set aside by presidential proclamation as Navy Day. More than any one man, perhaps, did Roosevelt build for a great fleet, and the modern navy is in great measure due to his efforts while he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley," said Commander E. R. Rice, head of the newly-created Department of Naval Science and Tactics at the University yesterday...
...Republicans to ally themselves with the "reform element" of the party. Mr. Root soon found himself Chairman of the Judiciary Committee which was drawing up a new state constitution for New York.* People called it a model. In Washington the name of Elihu Root began to be whispered. President McKinley appointed him Secretary of War; President Roosevelt liked him, kept him in office. Mr. Root became busier than the one-handed piccolo player. He despatched 70,000 troops to put down General Aguinaldo's insurrection in the Philippines and wrote a complete constitution and code of statutes...
...among other events William McKinley was nominated Republican presidential color-bearer. Clippings described the convention. One batch of these clippings was presented to a gawky stripling with the inscription: "To Master Willie Hays, with the hope that some day he may take a citizen's interest in politics." Possibly Schoolboy Hays wrote a thesis on the "Negro Problem...