Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country place in Virginia and took up his pen to continue influencing the country's history. President Grant stove off the fatal hand of cancer until his famous Memoirs were completed. Literary work alone would be enough to insure the fame of Theodore Roosevelt's name. Tomorrow morning Calvin Coolidge carries the tradition into Mr. Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine...
...where George Washington University was holding its mid-year commencement, went President and Mrs. Coolidge. In the stage wings they slipped on the caps and gowns of scholars and went out upon the platform. There, while college students cheered and Cabinet members, diplomats, professors, patted their hands in approval, Calvin Coolidge adjusted his spectacles to read his last Presidential address...
...President Hoover motors quickly back to White House. Buffet lunch. Calvin Coolidge, citizen, prepares to take the 2 p. m. train to Northampton, Mass...
Similarly George V might ask Calvin Coolidge to pardon an Englishman. Promptly Il Re granted the request of Il Papa, last week, by advice of Il Duce, who is anxious to cement in every possible way the new Italo-Papal accord (TIME, Feb. 18). Presumably the priests freed under Civil Law will be retried under Canon Law, and, if convicted, clapped back into civil jails...
...Classic's wife and brothers owned Louisiana cane sugar mills. The sugar duty came before the Tariff Commission. Commissioner Glassie voted against reduction of the sugar rate, tied the Commission, blocked action, helped Calvin Coolidge out of a 1924 campaign hole. In the Senate he was denounced...