Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lighter was, of course, President Coolidge, button-pushing in Washington. To President George Hannauer of the Boston & Maine R. R., President Coolidge telegraphed: ". . . The building is a credit to your company and the city." ¶ In consideration of $15.50, the State of Virginia issued a nonresident hunting license to Calvin Coolidge. Col. E. W. Starling of the Coolidge staff conferred with Game Commissioner Major A. Willis Robertson in Richmond, ..about a Presidential bird shoot, over fine-nosed dogs, at Swannanoa Country Club in the Blue Ridge Mountains the two days following Thanksgiving...
Crates, barrels and boxes-a vanload of them-accompanied Calvin Coolidge to Northampton, Mass., when he went home to vote. In silk topper and wing collar he personally superintended the unloading and disposition of his goods at his house on Massasoit street. It was the visible beginning of the end of his residence at the White House and seemed to indicate where the Coolidges will reside after March 4th. The goods were souvenirs of the past eight years-books, objets d' art, bric-à-brac from all over the world. A favorite article is a chair given...
Died. Judge Thomas P. Riley, 53, of Maiden, Mass., onetime campaign manager for Woodrow Wilson, onetime defeated opponent of Calvin Coolidge for the Lieutenant-Governorship of Massachusetts; of pneumonia; in Cleveland, where he had been campaigning for Alfred E. Smith. It was Judge Riley, with Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, who secured the New England vote for Governor Smith in the Houston convention...
...Died. Calvin Cobb, 75, famed Idaho journalist, for 39 years editor and publisher of the Idaho Statesman of Boise, Idaho; in Boise...
Terseness has been Calvin Coolidge's contribution to modern political speech in the U. S. Studious, abstract prolixity has been Herbert Hoover's. Plainness, homeliness, informality, which some called "cheapness" and others "humor," what some called "smart" and others "clever," what none denied had drive and excitement characterized the campaign utterances of Alfred Emanuel Smith...