Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the son of the tenth President was thus attending at the altar, the sons of the 30th President, John and Calvin Coolidge, were gathering their tennis rackets and radio sets together in preparation of departure for Mercersburg, Pa., the seat of learning where Mercersburg Academy is situated...
...Woodrow Wilson: "I paid a personal call upon Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. The press stated that this visit was the first I have made to the White House since I presided over its functions. As a matter of fact, when Mrs. Harding was ill last Fall my husband and I drove to the White House, made inquiries for her, left our cards...
...Democratic State Committee of Vermont chose for its candidate in the election this Fall to choose a successor to the late William P. Dillingham, Park H. Pollard, first cousin to Calvin Coolidge...
...Calvin Coolidge: " It is said that Mrs. Coolidge, questioned as to how she gets along with a man who talks so little, replied: 'You know I was a teacher in a deaf-mute college (Clarke's School for the Deaf, Northampton, Mass.) before we were married, and had become thoroughly accustomed to long periods of restful silence...
Columns of conjecture about Calvin Coolidge's interests, habits and tastes at last revealed one small fact for the sporting pages. The President is a football expert. Although he was never a player, it is recorded that in the Fall of 1894 (his Senior year), he was "one of the brains" behind the Amherst eleven. It is said that he has ever since retained " a keen and intelligent interest in the game...