Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy men last week adopted a new fashion. To Commander Calvin H. Cobb of the destroyer Billingsley, bound out of St. Petersburg, Fla., for Philadelphia, came a radio from the police that a St. Petersburg girl was believed to have been smuggled aboard the Billingsley; please to make a search. Indignant, Commander Cobb searched-and found 15-year-old Cynthia Alberta Pool. She said she had been persuaded to go by a seaman named Kramer; that a married woman of St. Petersburg had planned to go too but was prevented by her husband, who appeared on the dock...
...effect upon the country might be to make the Hoover candidacy seem inevitable, irresistible. Meantime, right up to the moment the balloting begins and "potential" strength is demonstrated, the powers-that-are in the G. O. P. would remain poised upon the Rock of Plymouth, able to "draft" Calvin Coolidge again, if need be, or to dictate his successor to the deadlocked boomers of Hoover and Lowden...
...Committee on Arrangements made another decision: one picture and one only shall adorn the convention hall, over the speakers' rostrum-a picture of Calvin Coolidge...
Congressmen have flown-and Congresswomen. Cabinet members have flown. Governors fly. Great generals, admirals, bankers and philanthropists fly. The President of Germany flies. Why doesn't Calvin Coolidge go up? Our leader should fly with Lindbergh! Perhaps he thinks it would be too great a loss to the country if he crashed fatally. I think it would be a great loss, but President Coolidge pointed out himself that there are plenty of big men to take his place. As a matter of fact, if Coolidge flew with Lindbergh and they crashed, the loss of Lindbergh would dwarf the loss...
Reason for Son Tyler's anger at the memory of President Lincoln is not far to seek. President John Tyler entered the White House in 1841 upon the death of President William Henry Harrison, hero of Tippecanoe. His hand-me-down administration, unlike that of Calvin Coolidge, contemporary prototype, was very unhappy. He had been placed upon the Whig ticket to catch Democratic votes in the South. His own Democratic tendencies, consistently displayed, made him hated by the party which he nominally headed. He retired from politics, embittered, when his term ended, and did not appear in public life...