Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge. Three weeks ago, a Republican committee at Cheyenne, Wyo., adopted a resolution setting forth that Calvin Coolidge had advanced the U. S. materially, intellectually, morally; that he had been "a factor for good" internationally; that his wisdom and beneficence should not be interrupted and that, therefore, Calvin Coolidge was requested "to waive his personal preference and consent to continue...
...election-first whisper of vox populi-was in New Hampshire. Only 11 delegates were involved, but all came out instructed for or partial to Candidate Hoover. Senator Moses, a charter subscriber to Hooverism, polled the highest vote. One Everett R. Rutter, the sole would-be-delegate in favor of Calvin Coolidge, was defeated. Only four years ago when Senator Moses refused to run as a Coolidge delegate he suffered the outstanding political defeat of his astute career...
...Lawrence Lowell 1 Joshua Whatmough 1 Charles A. Lindbergh 1 James Angell McLaughlin 1 Republicans Herbert Hoover 1841 Charles G. Dawes 230 Frank O. Lowden 183 Charles Curtis 52 Frank B. Willis 40 William E. Borah 28 Alvan T. Fuller 27 Charles E. Hughes 25 George W. Norris 21 Calvin Coolidge 9 J. Thomas Heflin 5 Roscoe Pound 3 Nicholas M. Butler 2 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 Dwight H. Morrow 1 Will H. Hays 1 Malcolm E. Nichols...
More than a hundred portraits of women were hung up last week in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan. The portraits-by Sargent, Zuloaga, Poole, Bellows, Orpen, Sorine, Zorne and many another-had in frequent case never been exhibited before. The sitters-Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. James A. Stillman, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mrs. W. R. Hearst, and many another such-had in most cases been flattered by their imagists. There was, however, one room which had been made into a fold for old portraits of women, by Reynolds, Romney, Stuart, West et al. The exhibit was notable for the excellent paintings...
...tells the extraordinary tale of the resurrection of Mrs. Eddy's footman and disciple, Calvin Frye. Frye was found one evening, "unconscious, speechless, eyes closed, apparently breathless, with no pulse and no indication of life. . . ." Frye was placed in a rocking chair. Mrs. Eddy stood over him, in the stuffy room, and said loudly: "Calvin, this cause needs you. Mother needs you and you must not leave. . . ." Frye at this supplication, wriggled and whispered: "I don't want to stay, I want to go." The next morning Frye was about his "mother's" business in the household...