Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Full Dinner Pail. It had been, in the past. It was founded as a crusading party, champions of free farmers and free labor against slaveholders and slavery. Until 1908, labor had been traditionally Republican. The A.F.L.'s Samuel Gompers was a frequent visitor to the White House when McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt occupied it. The McKinley program of prosperity and "the full dinner pail" appealed to farmers and workers as well as employers...
Near great: Theodore Roosevelt, Cleveland, John Adams and Polk. Average: John Quincy Adams, Monroe, Hayes, Madison, Van Buren, Taft, Arthur, McKinley, Johnson, Hoover, Benjamin Harrison. Below average: Tyler, Coolidge, Fillmore, Taylor, Buchanan and Pierce. Failures: Grant and Harding, both of whose administrations were marked by corruption...
Cost of Dying. In Los Angeles, where death has an unusually competitive sting, Utter-McKinley Mortuaries mailed out certificates entitling the bearer to a $20 discount on funeral services...
...Democrats were walloped badly in 1896, however. Harvard was a place that thrived on sound money and good gold. To beat William Jennings Bryan, the sound money forces behind McKinley, the Republican, and Palmer, the Independent Democrat, joined forces in a huge intercollegiate parade in Boston. A little too much fireworks and a trifle too much gaiety brought police billies down on gold standard skulls. But this kind of showmanship won followers, and Bryan was left with only 108 supporters...
...been fought on such varied issues as Van Buren's high living ("Van, Van is a used-up man"), Al Smith's Catholicism, and Buchanan's bachelorhood ("Who ever heard in all his life, of a candidate without a wife?"). They have been won by a McKinley, sitting quietly on the front porch of his Canton, Ohio home; and lost by a Bryan, carrying his crusade 18,000 miles through 29 states. They have caused the death of at least one candidate: famed Editor Horace Greeley, who died three weeks after his defeat by President U.S. Grant...