Word: calvinism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...down beside a stooped figure with cascading white hair and beard. The two talked for 20 minutes. Once the older man said: "Let's see. I saw him last in 1864." The old man was Hezron G. Day, 85, Civil War veteran, father of Admiral George Calvin Day, U. S. N., who commands the present Atlantic cruiser squadron. Mr. Day left Plymouth, Vt., 57 years ago, two years before Calvin Coolidge was born. He recalled President Coolidge's grandfather more clearly than the late Col. John Coolidge. Asked how President Coolidge had impressed him. Mr. Day said: "Very...
...Calvin Coolidge reverted to Calvin Wamblee-Tokaha (Leading Eagle) for a day. At Pine Ridge Indian Agency, 150 miles from Rapid City, S. Dak., he paid the first visit of a U. S. President to an Indian reservation (see next page...
...London, England, Representative Ernest W. Gibson of Ver mont, a schoolmate of Calvin Coolidge at Black River Academy in Ludlow, Vt., told the following story last week: "A jackass found its way one night into a classroom on an upper floor of the academy. The long-eared animal didn't like the classical surroundings and played havoc with the desks, tables and books, and roughed the place up generally, to the great displeasure of the Faculty...
...Beneath the windows of the President's schoolroom office in Rapid City, 250 members of the South Dakota Women's Christian Temperance Union prayed for Calvin Coolidge's continuance in office, for the upholding of the Constitution...
...Steel stock (TIME, Aug. 8) would succeed Judge Gary as U. S. Steel Chairman. Whom had Judge Gary recommended? No one publicly and explicitly, though theory mongers found it exciting to point out an article only last month in Collier's Weekly wherein Judge Gary saluted Calvin Coolidge and said he would have been an outstanding success in any business...