Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, Science spawned new wonders; Industry zoomed ahead. Along came Abraham Lincoln and an improved icebox. Then followed Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge (in 1924) with "bigger and better" refrigerators in the White House. But, it is Mr. Coolidge who brings the dawn of the great electrical era. The first event was the famed electric hobby horse ("camelephant"), upon which the President keeps fit. (TIME, Feb. 23, 1925.) Recently a new electric elevator was installed and also, mirabile dictu, an electric refrigerator system† with finny copper cooling coils and four one-half horsepower compressors. This equipment is equivalent...
...hundred and twelve million U. S. inhabitants acknowledge the executive shepherdage of Calvin Coolidge, refuse to "recognize" the 139 million Soviet Russians over whom Joseph Stalin has reared himself a despot. M. Stalin ("Mr. Steel") exerts, simply as Secretary of the Communist Party, a political "boss power" prodigious and all pervasive. A cobbler's son whose actual name and age are doubtful, "Mr. Steel," was born in the remote Transcaucasian land of Vras-tan, Gruzia or Georgia.* Amid the purging flames of revolution, the great Dictator Lenin tested and tempered the Georgian's metal, gave him the prophetic...
...train stopped at Ludlow, where the President and his wife entered an automobile to drive out to Plymouth. On the way, their car alone turned aside. Mr and Mrs. Coolidge got out, climbed to the little cemetery on the hill, bowed silently over the graves of son Calvin Jr. and of the President's mother and father...
Sometimes he varies the thought. "Prosperity," he declares, "is going to continue. . . . This country will continue to be prosperous. . Don't SELL this COUNTRY short. If you do, you will lose. . . . Calvin Coolidge will be re-elected...
...neck until dead. ¶ Three years ago a long, black funeral train crossed this vast continent bearing in sombre state one lone coffin. President Harding was dead. Last week marked the end of the third year since that tragedy-likewise the beginning of the fourth year of Calvin Coolidge's Presidential regime...