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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emissaries from the governments headed by Calvin Coolidge, George V, Gaston Doumergue, Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg and many another, sought last week the capital of Persia, Teheran, a city located some 60 miles inland from the southern tip of the Caspian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIA: King of Kings | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...Middour, assistant headmaster of Mercersburg Academy, received from Joseph M. Speer, director of industrial education in Pittsburgh, 20 prize birdhouses made by 20 schoolboys in a contest conducted by the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. They will be placed in trees on the Mercersburg campus in memory of a onetime student?Calvin Coolidge Jr. ¶ In the south gardens of the White House, crocuses bloomed, hyacinths budded. ¶ James Coupal, M.D. and Major U. S. A., the President's personal physician, told the President he must cut out "handshaking" His patient obeyed. Swiftly the word went forth that the President loves handshaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Apr. 12, 1926 | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

Read TIME from cover to cover ?the pages following this quiz as -well as those preceding. Then return to p. 33. Quiz yourself. Normal persons should answer correctly at least 20 questions. 1) What advice of his personal physician is Calvin Coolidge believed to disregard? (See THE PRESIDENCY.) 2) Who sailed quietly indeed, nearly unnoticed, on the Majestic? (See THE CABNET.) 3) "If I tell a jury to find a man guilty, and they do not, I will send them to jail." Who said? (See THE CONGRESS.) 4) At what trade did Mussolini once labor? (See ITALY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Apr. 12, 1926 | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

Ignored. At the President's press conference, last week, questions dealing with "the Houghton incident" were pointedly ignored by "the White House spokesman" (i. e., Calvin Coolidge). The "spokesman" did disclose, however, that the administration has not been dissuaded from its announced intent of sending a U. S. representative to the preliminary League disarmament conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nought on Stumbles | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

Died. John Calvin Coolidge, 81, father of the President of the United States, after several months' illness, at Plymouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 29, 1926 | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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