Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Countries : Ernest McKinley Fisher, 50, research director for the American Bankers Association, onetime economic adviser to the Federal Housing Administration, European housing expert...
...Bill Starling began as a White House Secret Service man in 1914, after flings at being a deputy sheriff and a railroad special agent. He was deeply impressed by the fact that Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley had met violent deaths. As he understood it, his job was to keep that sort of thing from happening again. If there was an infernal machine or an assassin's bullet being planned for the Chief Executive, Colonel Ed figured that his life was worth less than the President...
...ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead of cash registers, gas lights over the bar, a rack of clay and corncob pipes for free smokes on the house. Under portraits of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley is a brass plate: THEY ASSASSINATED THESE GOOD MEN THE SKULKING DOGS...
...card game which is also a test for psychic abnormalities has been worked out by Drs. Starke R. Hathaway and John Charnley McKinley of the University of Minnesota. All the player has to do is go through 550 statements printed on cards, file each card as "true" or "false" or "cannot...
...Hathaway and McKinley first announced their "Multiphasic Personality Inventory" in 1940. Similar tests were already in existence, but none were as comprehensive as the 550-card set. Advantages of the cards: a patient's whole attention is more easily focused on one question at a time; filing cards is "less like signing your name to something you haven't read" than the ordinary truth & false tests...