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Word: calvinism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Death. "My own participation was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on the seventh of July. He was a boy of much promise, proficient in his studies, with a scholarly mind, who had just turned sixteen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Price | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...interests of giving Calvin Coolidge his deserts you should have left the hyphen out of that last word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...President Hoover's first cabinet meeting assembled eleven men besides himself. The eleventh was Vice President Curtis who will attend Cabinet meetings as did Calvin Coolidge when Vice President. Most of the new members were somewhat self conscious when they appeared. Walter F. Brown the Postmaster General came in breezily having been a friend of President Harding's and a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Vice President Curtis was as much at his ease as anyone, was greeted familiarly by all. Of the old Cabinet members, Secretary Mellon slipped in by a side door as usual, Secretary Davis came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Honor of a Call | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...remarkable insight into things. "The day I became President he had just started to work in a tobacco field. When one of his fellow laborers said to him, 'If my father was President I would not work in a tobacco field,' Calvin replied. 'If my father were your father, you would.' "We do not know what might have happened to him under other circumstances, but if I had not been President he would not have raised a blister on his toe, which resulted in blood poisoning, playing lawn tennis in the South Grounds. "In his suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Price | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Federal Commissioners. 3) Trucking firms who have been transporting liquor to foreign embassies in Washington were told to cease; only actual diplomats in actual diplomatic automobiles may transport liquor. 4) Seven men arrested in Manhattan on March 4 waited last week to find out the hour and minute of Calvin Coolidge's signing the Jones Act-hoping it was signed at least one minute after their arrests-but Attorney-General Mitchell announced that anyone caught that day would be tried under the Jones Act. 5) The bootleggers of Washington, D.C., frightened or greedy, increased the price of alcohol from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Dry Wave | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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