Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McKinley Takes Honors...
Following the three leaders were: Exeter with 21 3-5ths, Boston College with 21 1/2, Holy Cross with 17, and Northeastern with 7 3-5ths points. Individual honors went to B. C.'s Herb McKinley, who triumphed in the 440 with a time of 50.3 seconds, a full second ahead of his nearest rival. Ralph King of B. C. was the only double winner, capturing top honors in the 100 yard and 220 yard dashes...
...club's 4,850 members range from labor leaders to corporation executives. For a generation they have been soapboxed by speakers of every political shade, from Communist Earl Browder to Britain's conservative Lord Halifax. The club has heard every U.S. president since William McKinley, missing only Warren G. Harding (he died the day before he was to address it). Before it in 1932, Presidential Nominee Franklin Roosevelt made the famed speech which first blueprinted the New Deal...
...Everett McKinley Dirksen, 47, a big, tousled, thoughtful, farm-minded Representative from Pekin, Ill., a town of 19,000 population which lies on the east bank of the Illinois River, just south of Peoria. The Pride of Pekin told the Washington press that 36 fellow Congressmen from 13 States had signed a petition urging him to try for the Republican Presidential nomination. He insisted that he was a serious candidate. He scorned any idea of acting as a "favorite son," which is the main strategy of the Pew-Hamilton "stop Willkie" campaign...
Barbara Hazel Guggenheim McKinley, plump 40-year-old heiress to many of the Guggenheim copper millions, was wedded, in Denver, for the third time-this time to a former body-builder and dance enthusiast, 28-year-old Corporal Larry Leonard. He signed a contract rejecting in advance any share in her wealth. The bride said her eleven and nine-year-old son and daughter "wrote him a letter and asked him to marry...