Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco, with simple ceremonies to the special train which had carried him .on his outward journey. On a fast schedule it started across the continent to Washington. Plans were made for formal obsequies in the Rotunda of the Capitol on Wednesday and interment at Marion, Ohio, on Friday. Calvin Coolidge, who succeeded to the Presidency, appointed that day for national mourning...
...living room Mr. Coolidge, pale, and silent, read the telegrams telling of President Harding's death. Then he slowly dictated a statement expressing his sorrow, and his intention of carrying out the policies of his predecessor, and also a telegram of condolence and sympathy to Mrs. Harding, signed "Calvin Coolidge; Grace Coolidge...
...next morning, the oath of office having been wired from Washington, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President of the United States, by his father, a Justice of the Peace...
Sued for Divorce. Alexandra Carlisle, actress, by Dr. Albert Pfeiffer of the Massachusetts Department of Health, who charges desertion. She attended the Republican National Convention in 1920 as an alternate delegate and seconded the nomination of Calvin Coolidge for the Vice Presidency...
...conservative "-two years ago the word of the hour-is also suffering a political change. " He represents a stern and rock-bound conservatism that is rapidly becoming obsolete, even in the camp of conservatives." The illustrative "he" is Calvin Coolidge. Once he was "our pride" because he would deliver us from the snare of the Bolshevik. No-to continue with an editorial in that brilliant sun-paper (Baltimore Sun): " He is unyielding and unbending in a viewpoint which, whatever its virtues, certainly falls far short of meeting the needs of such an age as this, when social and economic amelioration...