Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President prepared to go with Mrs. Coolidge to Mercersburg, Pa. It was there that his sons received their secondary schooling, at famed Mercersburg Academy. It was there that Mrs. Coolidge laid one of her many cornerstones, in June, 1924, for memorial chapel. The chapel has long since been finished. Calvin Coolidge Jr., Class of 1925, died of septic poisoning in Washington scarcely a month after his mother's visit at school. The dedicatory services were to be held on Headmaster William M. Irvine's 61st birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge were to be guests...
...Carolina asked the Governor of South Carolina who was the ablest U. S. statesman of the 20th Century, the answer might be Woodrow Wilson. If Manhattan Schoolteacher Annie O'Rourke put the same question to little Isadore Israbinowsky, he might answer, according to the degree of his precocity, Calvin Coolidge or Alfred Emanuel Smith or Will Rogers. Certainly neither the Governor nor little Isadore would be likely to name Elihu Root. They had undoubtedly seen his name somewhere. Mr. Root must have done something or the mighty President Roosevelt would not have said of him: "He is the ablest...
...candidate is not a politician, but a onetime school teacher from downstate and a general secretary of the International Council of Religious Education. He believes in God, Abraham Lincoln (whom his father knew well), Calvin Coolidge, and the 18th Amendment...
Among guests were the President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Secretary of State and Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg, Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. William M. Jardine, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court and Mrs. George Sutherland...
...from the dim past to yodel stale lines with broad vocal nuances. About her plump, Hungarian person the show revolves. From Stanley Lupino, English comedian, it draws its light. This superb clown flashes one of the season's gems in his sensational disclosure of the shocking impotence of Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Lloyd George, none of whom can lay eggs, grow ostrich feathers, or sit like a house fly in the saccharine stickiness of a raspberry tart. The chorus of toe-dancers flit about in movements more airy than usual. Theatre-goers can hardly afford to miss Comedian...