Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinctly emotional editorial called "A Nationwide Mandate," in which it told that 30 of 42 Republican National Committeemen from whom it had elicited expressions refused to believe that President Coolidge would ignore a party call. Governor Fuller of Massachusetts led a New England chorus of even stronger effect: Calvin Coolidge would be wanted again and he would have to respond. The President's closest political friend of all, Chairman William M. Butler of the Republican National Committee, steadfastly refused to be convinced that all was said and done. New Jersey Republicans actually formed a Coolidge Draft Club, sayng: "We draft...
Precautions? When U. S. President Calvin Coolidge issued invitations to the Parley (TIME, Feb. 21), he stressed an intent to extend the 5-5-3 Washington Treaty ratio to cover not only capital ships (as at present) but auxiliary craft as well. Mere "extension" seemed not to call for the same amount of preliminary sounding out which would have been advisable had a wholly new problem been up for consideration. Thus President Coolidge is reputed to have entered the affair with no more than routine caution...
Their habit of thinking of events as following each other in logical succession, excited the curiosity of some people as to what Calvin Coolidge might do after March 4, 1929, if his "choice" of not running for re-election is respected by the country. And a habit-ridden correspondent of the New York Times wrote the following, which promptly appeared on the front page of that authoritative daily: "Many offers have come to him [Mr. Coolidge] to write, and it is understood that some of the trustees of Amherst College, of which Frank W. Stearns [Mr. Coolidge's close friend...
...what a shocking development it may have seemed to one man ? a man not named Calvin Coolidge. Only last June Amherst chose a new president and the Amherst Graduates' Quarterly published a series of paragraphs from which the following are excerpts...
...American newspaper team assembled by the journalistic department of the University of Illinois. It has also won the honor of having more tightlipped, tight-mouthed New Englanders scan it crossly, not over three-minute eggs, but after breakfast on the porch. Dutifully read by New England-bred Calvin Coolidge, it has more recently won the honor of being termed "the President's Bible...