Word: calvin
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...suspicion, yet Reagan knew enough to remove the confiscatory tax rates and inflation that were squelching investment and entrepreneurship under Nixon, Carter and Gerald R. Ford. The big posthumous tax cuts proposed by John F. Kennedy '40 made the 1960s the first decade without recession. Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, both "do nothing" presidents not renowned for mental prowess, were the stewards of the great 1920s boom when GNP increased by more than half in under a decade. Coolidge simply repealed the war time tax rates and let the good times roll. And who guided America through the tripling...
...other hand, populist though you be, you don't entrust your life savings to a friendly guy named Bud whom you met this morning at the bus depot. You prefer men named Calvin who work in buildings with pillars...
Woodrow Wilson put sheep on the White House lawn to help with the home-front effort in World War I. In 1925, Calvin Coolidge was the first to try out radio, which Franklin Roosevelt then used so effectively in his fireside chats, broadcasting from the shadowy basement room arched with stone pillars right near the Map Room, where he and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill planned the grand strategy for World...
...which I have finally learned always sounds a lot better than it turns out. Besides, I'm not photogenic (see last week's issue, page 8). That's why TIME uses a drawing in the middle of this column instead of a picture. You cannot imagine how hideous Calvin Trillin...
...Other factors include racial and economic disparities in sentencing. In Texas, for instance, two-thirds of those sentenced to die are black or Hispanic, though they make up only one-third of the state population. Then there's bad lawyering: this week attorneys for a Texas death-row inmate, Calvin Burdine, will argue in federal appeals court that he was deprived of due process when his first lawyer slept through much of his trial...