Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty Congressmen, mostly from the West, who have not forgotten the name of Roosevelt, want the present Assistant Secretary of the Navy to be the next Vice President. One of the arguments against Calvin Coolidge is that Massachusetts is too prominent in Washington?when it can number among her sons the Speaker of the House, the Secretary of War, the Republican leader of the Senate and the Vice President. But neither Coolidge nor Roosevelt is excited...
...Calvin Coolidge: " I was present at the annual gathering of The Dutch Treat Club at the Waldorf-Astoria. They gave a show about Sex and Mr. Sumner that came within an inch of making me laugh...
Among the catechisms are those of Edward VI, Luther, the Council of Trent, Father Vaux, an English Reformer, John Calvin, and others both earlier and later. The primers, which usually contain catechisms and other elementary religious instruction, include copies of two of those issued by Henry the Eighth and the New England Primer, on which our ancestors in the eighteenth century were brought...
...Catskill Dutch' presents a picture rather than a problem. It gives a very life-like representation of certain sides of life in a remote district where men and women live under the rule of the Bible interpreted by a strict and merciless consistory, with the spirit of Calvin in the atmosphere of America...
...President of the paper was Mr. Francis Child Faulkner '74. The other editors on the original board, all members of the class of 1874, were Messrs. Eugene Nelson Aston, Henry Alden Clark, Samuel Belcher Clarke, Thomas Corlies, George Erwin Haven, Edward Higginson, Charles Austin mackintosh, Henry Childs Merwin, and Calvin Proctor Sampson. Of these first editors, only four Messrs. Clark, Clarke, Merwin, and Sampson are alive today...