Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calvin Coolidge completed the preparation of his message to Congress, or, in Constitutional language, prepared "information of the state of the union." and recommendations for such measures as he judges "necessary and expedient." Having drafted his " information," he put it quietly into his pocket...
...Calvin Coolidge. The President has made no open move for nomination. He does not need to. His only open opponent, so far, is Hiram Johnson. The Chairman of the Republican State Committee of Massachusetts declared that all his state's delegates will be for Coolidge. Senator Willis of Ohio asserted that his state probably would have no favorite sons, since President Harding left no " heirs or assigns." Senator Watson announced that he might enter the Indiana primaries as a favorite son, so that Hiram Johnson would not get Indiana's delegation by default. In that case Mr. Watson would...
...first biography of (John) Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States, is in process of preparation. Author: Edward E. Whiting, political columnist for the Boston Herald...
...dramatic scene in the sitting-room of an old-fashioned Yankee homestead at Plymouth, Vt., where in the early morning hours of Aug. 3, 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in by his father as 30th President of the U. S., will be commemorated in a painting by Walter Gilman Page of Boston, Chairman of the Massachusetts State Art Commission. Page has recorded all the details of the room-glass lamp, family Bible, old combination desk and bookcase, bowl of flowers, bay window and Col. John Coolidge himself-an interior full of pictorial, as well as historical, value...
...four classes of Republicans it is noteworthy that only one, the progressive-radical group, is obstinately opposed to the Mellon plan. As the Mellon plan's popularity became evident, the cautious tacticians began to offer it more support. At the same time, Calvin Coolidge, feeling the public pulse at the White House, decided that the tax cut and no bonus was the best program for the Administration. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican floor leader of the Senate, lunched at the White House, and it was given out that the President was unalterably opposed to a bonus...