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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week savers got a powerful lift, and so did the cause of capital formation, when President Carter called for a phasing out of interest rate ceilings. This deregulation would have the additional effect of eliminating the differential between commercial banks and savings institutions. The President also recommended that all federally chartered banks be authorized to offer interest-bearing checking accounts. To offset some of the cost of the higher rates for the savings bankers, who lend out their money at long-term fixed rates, Carter suggested that they should be allowed to 1) make some shorter-term, higher-interest...
...potato chip maker who went broke in the Depression, Jones, 40, grew up in the city's segregated black ghetto because it was the only place where his family could afford to buy a home. Armed with a taste for politics and a sense of social justice, he got a night-school law degree from Georgetown University, gravitated to Lyndon Johnson's 1964 campaign, and wound up as the President's appointments secretary, one of the handful of White House staffers closest to L.B.J. Of that period he now says, "We created a lot of cynicism, both...
...1860s Mark Twain wrote a humorous column for the Territorial Enterprise of Virginia City, Nev., about a horse that tried to eat a boy on his way to Sunday school ("The boy got loose, you know, but that old hoss got his bible and some tracts ..."). Twain overheard somebody laughing at it and decided to write more columns, all just as hilarious as the first...
Baker did not know how to drive a car but in the fall of 1943 he enlisted in the Navy as a pilot. "I loved it," he says. "I felt I was dashing. I was very disappointed when I got out after two years of training, without getting overseas and without killing myself." He went back to Hopkins on the G.I. Bill, met Miriam Emily Nash, married her, wrote a novel that went unpublished and after a time began working nights for the Baltimore Sun, at $30 a week...
...great man spoke he scribbled something on a piece of paper, buzzed for his secretary and handed the paper to her. Soon she returned and handed the paper back. Some time after that the interview ended with Johnson still effusing. Another reporter who followed Baker into Johnson's office got a look at the scrap of paper; on it was written, "Who is this I am talking to?" and below that, "Russell Baker of the New York Times...