Word: cal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twice been elected to Congress from West Virginia. From 1913 to 1918 he was Woodrow Wilson's solicitor general, went to London (1918-21) as U.S. ambassador, came home to be nominated (after 103 ballots) as the Democratic candidate for President, and was roundly beaten by Cal Coolidge. Senior partner of a first-line Manhattan law firm, he had argued 136 cases before the Supreme Court. He looked thoroughly at home in his black sack coat and striped trousers, as he sat calmly in the lawyers' sector waiting for the proceedings to begin...
Delegates also approved a resolution cal ing for a vigorous, worldwide evangelist] campaign in 1953, the 250th anniversar of the birth of Methodism's founder, Joh Wesley. As the titular leader of U.S. Mett odists, Philadelphia's 56-year-old Bisho Fred P. Corson, new president of the Metf odist Council of Bishops, puts the emphasi on attracting youth. "The Communist! Fascists and ultra-fundamentalists, like tb Youth for Christ," he said, "all came t power via the youth movement. We mu< face that fact and recognize that they suf plies some sort of inner urge...
Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of Commerce was one of the many who wondered what the President really meant by the phrase, "I do not choose to run." Since Herbert Hoover's friends were urging him to run himself, he tried to get Silent Cal to talk. Ohio Congressmen, Secretary Hoover explained, were planning to enter Hoover's name in the Ohio primary. Replied Coolidge...
...Wellesley David D. Cairns, Wareham; James F. Downey, White Plains, N. Y.; Charles A Durakis, Cambridge; Harold W. Geick Mattapan; Harold J. Gerry, Spartanburg N. C.; David P. Gregory, Chicago; Robert C. Mello, New York City; Robert W. Ray Brooklyn; Brian F. Reynolds, Lowell Robert S. Twitchell, Long Beach, Cal, John M. Turner, Orono, Maine, Manager...
There was no reward, but just after 9 one night last week, a gunman met Arnold Schuster in the shadows of a tree-lined street near his home in Brooklyn, and pumped four .38-cal. slugs into his brain and abdomen...