Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many Americans, Alaska is a remote, glacial wasteland remembered vaguely as: 1) a sprawling territory, twice the size of Texas, which the U.S. acquired from Russia in a forgotten real-estate deal; 2) the site of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley (20,464 feet); 3) home ground of Robert Service's The Shooting of Dan McGrew and Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush...
...make the loudest small-town editorial voice of the U.S. When Populists roughed up dudish Editor White on the street, he reacted in an editorial broadside, What's the Matter with Kansas? His answer: Populism. The editorial made Editor White a national figure and helped to elect William McKinley President. It also made Republican Boss Mark Hanna White's devoted patron, a circumstance which once gave President McKinley a bad turn. Hanna first introduced Editor White to the President by putting his hand on White's shoulder and saying: "This is my boy." McKinley batted a shocked...
...News hewed to the Democratic-but not the New Deal-line, backed only two Republicans (McKinley and Dewey) for President. It fought the isolationists of both World Wars...
Thomas E. Dewey reported a parlous situation in the governor's mansion in Albany. The bathroom in the McKinley guest suite needed a new toilet seat, but for three months, said Dewey, "the entire majesty of New York State and all the resources at its command" proved unable to find one. Shocked sympathizers promptly dispatched replacements-one by air from Tacoma, Wash...
This week Howard Lindsay and Russel McKinley ("Buck") Grouse were gilt-edging the gag that once dubbed them "the most successful collaborators since the Smith Brothers." They had written the biggest smash, thus far, of the season.* They had, unprecedentedly in Broadway history, two current hits that had opened six years apart, † And with eleven years of co-authoring, co-adapting, co-producing behind them, they had seven successes to their credit against one lone flop (Strip for Action...