Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President had a speech ready. A formal luncheon was to be served in the State dining room. Among the prime guests was to be Frank Billings Kellogg, the Coolidge Secretary of State who brought to fruition the idea of France's Aristide Briand for such a treaty. Calvin Coolidge had also been asked to attend. There were to be band music, cameramen, a nationwide hookup...
...Charles Curtis, continued last week to "rest up" between sessions of Congress. Once a jockey, he will go down in history as the Vice President (or as the President, if anything should happen to President Hoover) who liked to go to horse races, just as Grover Cleveland liked duckshooting, Calvin Coolidge fishing, Herbert Hoover building toy dams. In the minds of many a temperate Christian woman, horse-racing is almost as iniquitous as liquor but so far no prying soul has disturbed the Vice President's innocent pleasure. During the Spring he went frequently to the Maryland tracks, Bowie...
...Another critic of lobbies last week was Calvin Coolidge who wrote in the American Magazine that Congress was "subservient to organized minorities," that' lobby-produced legislation is "excessively expensive...
...Arlington. To the place named for him are taken men hurt and broken in the nation's service. Wives of Army men travel thousands of miles to bear their children there, with free and excellent medical attention. Last year 237 Army babies were born at Walter Reed. Calvin Coolidge Jr. died there...
Birthday. Calvin Coolidge, 57 (on July 4), his first celebration as a private citizen in 22 years; at Northampton, Mass...