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...months passed. Liberia, Cuba, Greece, Uruguay opened their arms, welcomed the U. S. into the brotherhood. Other nations remained cool, indifferent. Meanwhile, at home, Senators began to find that their constituents were not pleased with the votes they had cast for the World Court. In April, Senator William B. McKinley was defeated for renomination in the Illinois primaries ostensibly because he had voted for the World Court. Now, in California and Wisconsin, Senators Shortridge and Lenroot are having trouble in the primary campaigns for the same reason. Out in Idaho, where Senator William Edgar Borah is master...
...American architects, built twin houses on La Fayette Square in Washington, D. C. One was the home of Henry Adams, historian, man of letters; in the other lived John Hay, statesman. Mr. Hay became Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, then Secretary of State under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. Imperceptibly, inevitably, the salon appeared. Henry Adams and John LaFarge would come in, chattering feverishly about the sculpture of Augustus St. Gaudens; Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge would play "a game in which they were always liable to find the shifty sands of American opinion yield suddenly...
...miles away). In Bering Sea, a Japanese steamer stood by to behold a long, heavy eruption of Bogoslof, a volcanic island near the eastern end of the Aleutian chain, evidently a continuance of the terrestrial colly wobbles suffered by that region during the past year, in which Mount McKinley, far inland in Alaska, has several times been reported as participating...
Fred Lundin, silent, black-glassed blond, manipulator of the Small-Lundin machine, who said that he did not support either Frank L. Smith or Senator William B. McKinley, that he could not "get along with politicians," that Governor Small is "a wonderful, fine, soulful man-a victim of criminal prosecutors...
...sitting in Chicago to investigate "slush funds of the recent Illinois primaries" (TIME, July 26) ; he gave them no information on fund disposal. Others did, last week, principally Samuel Insull, greatest of midwest utility potentates. Mr. Insull's competitor, in a comparatively smaller way is Senator W. B. McKinley, recently defeated in the Republican primaries by Col. Frank L. Smith, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission. Mr. Insull acknowledged giving $125,000 to Col. Smith. Then, no piker, he had further promoted his antiWorld Court campaign by contributing smaller sums to the Deneen faction supporting Senator McKinley against...