Word: mcleans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come because he is getting ready to go out of town to attend a funeral tomorrow. . . . Mr. Caraway's telephone, it is said, has been disconnected. . . . Mr. Keyes is in bed, but says he will think it over. I think he was serious about that. . . . At Mr. McLean's residence we reached some one on the telephone who refused to give him the message. . . . Mr. Gooding is in bed, but says: 'All right, I will come over.' . . . Mr. Stewart gave a jocular reply. I do not know just what he did say. . . . Mr. Heflin is reported...
...fair trial of Evangelist Norris. So venue was changed to Austin, where the murder trial ended last week. The jury consisted of a onetime sheriff, merchants, clerks, farmers, laborers. None was known to be a Klansman or a Catholic. All were wary gentlemen, who heard Prosecutor William McLean sneer at Evangelist Norris as a "pistol-packing parson"; cry: "There has been a frame-up in this case. Norris had murder in his heart and wanted an excuse to kill Chipps, and said something to make him turn, and then pumped him full of bullets . . . the poor old drunkard...
...like him, too. In 1904, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom's squeaking tan shoes paced the floors of Manhattan's Hoffman House. He slapped the back of August Belmont, swapped yarns with Colonel Clayton of Alabama, Jim Griggs of Georgia and John R. McLean of Ohio, best-dressed man at the convention. But the Democrats had had but one U. S. President* since before the Civil War, and Judge Alton B. Parker, Democratic nominee for 1904, did not increase the list...
...Seven Republican Senators, Messrs. Capper of Kansas, Frazier of North Dakota, Greene of Vermont, Pepper of Pennsylvania, Stanfield of Oregon, McLean of Connecticut and Metcalf of Rhode Island, sat around the snowy napery of the President's breakfast table. They lifted their eyebrows significantly and discussed whether or not the heat might force Congress to adjourn about the middle of June...
...joined the Harvard faculty as an instructor. In 1887 he became an assistant professor in history, serving in that capacity for a decade. He then became a full professor, and in 1913 received the McLean chair which he still continues to occupy...