Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Editor Ray Long assigned to Calvin Coolidge the writing of an autobiography, and if the manuscript which Editor Long tells us he received from the hands of Mr. Coolidge was composed by the President-hats off to Editor Long. 2) Calvin Coolidge is a native of Vermont, and migrated to Massachusetts. I was born in Massachusetts, and migrated to Vermont. But Mr. Coolidge now owns the homestead at Plymouth, he accepts the name Vermonter-so I feel that we are fellow Vermonters. 3) My occupation during more than 30 years has been editing (daily newspapers), publishing, and printing. With these...
COUNTY OF NEW YORK RAY LONG, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am the Editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, and, as such, negotiated for the preparation and publication by the Cosmopolitan Magazine of the manuscripts by Calvin Coolidge. To the best of my knowledge and belief, every line of the manuscripts by Calvin Coolidge which have been delivered to me by the ex-President and which have been published in the Cosmopolitan Magazine was written by Mr. Coolidge himself. In fact, from my personal knowledge, I am able to state that neither of his secretaries knew of the existence...
...President Hoover accepted the resignation of David H. Blair of North Carolina as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. ¶ For the first time since Calvin Coolidge Jr., playing upon them, developed a heel blister which went into a fatal infection in 1924, tennis was played last week upon the White House courts. Players: Secretary of State Stimson, Assistant Secretary of State Francis White, White House Physician Joel T. Boone, Director Leo S. Rowe of the Pan-American Union. President Hoover does not play tennis...
...stack. Dreading capture, he gulped down poison. Purged by a physician, he explained that he had been so pestered by a life insurance agent that suicide had seemed attractive. . . . The pestiferousness of such agents- porch-climbers, telephoners, buttonholers. classmates-may soon become a matter for the attention of Citizen Calvin Coolidge. Last week he accepted nomination to New York Life Insurance Co.'s board of directors and assignment to the agency committee where he will specialize in "human contacts." His formal election will occur in May. Twenty-eight years ago this same company considered Mr. Coolidge a doubtful risk...
...Calvin Coolidge retired from the Presidency because he felt that no man could, in that office, give the people the best service for longer than eight years. He had been told that the Kansas City nomination was his for the taking. He felt that his re-election was "assured." Yet, obedient to a desire to get back to the people, he said, "I-do-not-choose-to-run" in South Dakota and followed that up by despatching his secretary to the Republican National Convention to tell the leaders of unpledged State delegations not to vote...