Word: mckinley
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LeFevre is one of a handful of Wall Street gnomes who try to discover a correlation between events and the stock market. In 1974 he began tracking the performance of the 30 Dow industrial stocks through the first year of Republican and Democratic Administrations going back to William McKinley in 1901. LeFevre discovered that the Dow rose during the period for every Democratic President from the fourth Inaugural of Franklin Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson. The only exception in recent times was Jimmy Carter's first year, 1977, when the indicator dropped...
...wall in oils, along with Lincoln and Eisenhower. When Coolidge appeared on the morning of Ronald Reagan's Inauguration, some of the staff members were startled. "There's been an error," suggested one aide, believing a workman had mistaken the Vermonter for Jefferson or maybe McKinley. No, the report came back, the President wants Coolidge, the cutter of taxes and debt, the man who squandered few words and less money...
Then there was the matter of pressing the flesh. Polk and William McKinley both developed extensive theories about the best way to shake many hands without pain or injury; Lyndon Johnson could extend a normal greeting into something like a mugging. Some Presidents failed handshaking. Benjamin Harrison's grip was likened to "a wilted petunia," while one newsman described Woodrow Wilson's as "a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper...
...enterprising 19th century Corsican named Angelo Mariani had the notion of blending the coca leaf with fine wine, which he marketed under the name of Vin Mariani. Mariani collected endorsements from Popes Leo XIII and Pius X, President McKinley and the Kings of Spain, Greece, and Norway and Sweden, as well as such literary luminaries as Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas and Emile Zola. French Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, designer of the Statue of Liberty, swore that if he had only savored Vin Mariani earlier, he would have built the old girl hundreds of meters higher...
Last week too came the announcement that TIME Washington Correspondent Neil MacNeil will receive the first Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting of Congress. MacNeil has covered the Capitol for TIME since 1958. Says he: "The job is a reward itself. Which, of course, makes being honored for doing it doubly pleasant...