Word: barbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is now some serious scholarship to support the theory that we have entered a new age of the presidency. The first words encountered in the new book by Duke's Professor James David Barber are stunning: "A revolution in presidential politics is under way. No longer do the Democratic and Republican parties control the choice of standard-bearers. In their place a new set of kingmakers has arisen: the journalists. For it is in the newspapers, the magazines and on television screens that the presidential candidacies are created and destroyed." Barber has made political history before...
...Thus $100 spent in 1968 to buy a machine would replace only half the machine when recovered through depreciation in 1978. Forced by inflation and the tax code to eat their capital, steelmen are backing the Capital Cost Recovery Act. Introduced in the House by New York's Barber Conable and Oklahoma's James Jones, it would speed up depreciation to ten years on buildings, five years on machinery and equipment, and three years on vehicles...
...party is in power a long time, corruption increases. This is the result of one party's being in control of Congress for 25 years." Protested a Democratic House leader, Washington's Thomas Foley: "He wasn't saying that about Watergate." Insisted New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable: "There's no plus for Republicans in this. It's a bad show, and we're all going to lose from...
Like so many comics of his time, James Francis Durante grew up on New York City's teeming Lower East Side and left school early. From his Neapolitan mother, he inherited his legendary nose. From his French-Italian father, a barber, he got the encouragement to study the piano. By age 17, "Ragtime Jimmy" was performing in saloons from Coney Island to Chinatown, with a singing waiter named Eddie Cantor...
...Warned the President in his State of the Union message: "The urgency of the anti-inflation fight requires that we defer such tax reduction at this time." Thus the Administration's guns-plus-butter spending program is being paid for by still heavier tax loads. Says Republican Congressman Barber Conable: "That's the Carter strategy: to balance the bud get by tax up-creep." The President's skillfully crafted election year strategy of higher federal spending combined with steep taxes, however, could still be upset by howling taxpayers on the verge of revolt...