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Bypassing the Court. Faced with dwindling federal revenues because of a recession, Grover Cleveland tried to revive the income tax in 1894. Rich New York Socialite Ward McAllister threatened to leave the country if the tax was enacted. Thundered Democrat William Jennings Bryan: "If 'some of our best people' prefer to leave the country rather than pay a tax of 2%, God pity the worst!" The bill passed-but the Supreme Court, by a vote of five to four, declared it unconstitutional...
...President Grover Cleveland designated Labor Day, the first Monday in September, as a legal holiday. But while the day still honors the U.S. workingman, it has evolved over the years into a much more significant date in the life of the American consumer. No seasonal divide so sharply separates the living and buying patterns of men, women and children across the land. Summer is over, no matter what the calendar says, and change reaches deep into the nation's habits, mood and marketplace...
...were called Great. F.D.R. finished third, after Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, but ahead of Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Jefferson. Harry Truman, in the historians' view, belongs among the Near Greats, in ninth place, not quite up to James Polk but more highly regarded than John Adams or Grover Cleveland. Next to the last among twelve Average Presidents was Dwight D. Eisenhower, who ranks 22nd, and comes in ahead only of the impeached Andrew Johnson. The two complete failures on the list: postwar Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding. The criterion was achievement, said Schlesinger: whether...
Frank Olsen unhooked his belt, crawled inside, and hurried across the street. In the battered cage lay Nick Szczerba, 45, Fladgit Grover Zunk, 39, and Ulysses Johnson, 30-all dead. The fourth, Edmund Botelko, 37, was still moaning, but he died on the way to the hospital...
...tumultuous '20s half so well as the one memorable moment when bareheaded Charles Lindbergh, an unbelievably young man who challenged the skies without a huge backing apparatus of machines and men. returned to his own land to be led to the people in triumph by top-hatted Grover Wrhalen...