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...Washington, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, Taft, Harding, both Roosevelts and Truman were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1960 | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...industry's official statistician, R. L. Polk & Co., last week totted up the final figures for calendar 1959. Total new car registrations: 6,026,500 cars, for the third best year on record, topped only by 1955 (7,169,908) and 1950 (6,326,438). The top five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Compacts to the Fore | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

...grain and feed merchant in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He did not attend the best Eastern prep schools, had worked his way through Vanderbilt University, saved enough to go on to Yale Law School. He had not been trained to be a banker, joined the Manhattan law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed as a promising trainee, did so well that he became a partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: The Big Banker | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...nine Presidents who preserved perfect veto records throughout their terms handed down a total of only 86 vetoes: Washington (2), Madison (7), Monroe (1), Jackson (12), Polk (3), Buchanan (7), Lincoln (6), McKinley (42), Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Overriding Smell of Pork | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Died. James G. Polk, 62, Democratic Congressman from Ohio's sixth district (1931-40, and since 1949), who described himself in the Congressional Directory as "one of the few members of Congress whose sole occupation is farming"; of cancer; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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