Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Signed] "CALVIN COOLIDGE...
...pleasure of swearing his own son in as President and living to see that son inaugurated for a second time was reserved for Colonel John Calvin Coolidge of Plymouth...
Rejected without discussion or record vote the nomination of Wallace McCamant of Oregon (who nominated Calvin Coolidge for Vice President in 1920) to be a Federal Circuit Judge...
...Reports to the White House from Plymouth, Vt., told of the flagging strength of the President's father. They were none too hopeful, but the President was sufficiently reassured to go for a week-end cruise on the Mayflower, Calvin Coolidge, the President's father, was reported less satisfactory last week. He was in some keeping in touch with his father's condition by radio...
...16th Century was a period of burning religious modifications. Martin Luther (1483-1546) in Germany led the revolt for Reformation against the current Catholicism. There Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) followed and modified somewhat Luther's tenets. To Switzerland John Calvin (1509-64), a Frenchman, migrated, learned the doctrine of Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531). The Lutheran Church follows Luther's teachings. The Presbyterian and the Reformed Churches follow those of Calvin and Zwingli...