Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present bone of contention. Judge McCamant has done two memorable things in his life. The first was to nominate Calvin Coolidge for vice-president, and the second to characterize Theodore Roosevelt as un-American in the presence of a senatorial committee. This interesting opinion was drawn from him by Hiram Johnson, who has never liked the Judge since the latter violated his pledge to support him at the Cleveland Convention. The California senator chortling with glee at the result of his cross-examination, then glanced significantly at his colleagues. And their subsequent decision proved to Mr. McCamant that his denunciation...
...Harding executed their coup and Harding was nominated. Then while plans were being laid for nominating some good regular for Vice President, the obdurate Judge McCamant rose and suggested the name of the Governor of Massachusetts?quite unexpectedly. And the convention in a mood to do the unexpected, nominated Calvin Coolidge for Vice President. And in the summer of 1923 Fate played another of its tricks and Calvin Coolidge became President. There was no doubt whatever that Judge McCamant was the primum mobile of the chain of accidents which made our present President. And a grateful President last year appointed...
Engaged. Miss Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Wilson Administration and Democratic opponent of Calvin Coolidge for the vice-presidency in 1920), graduate of Miss Chapin's School, student of agriculture at Cornell; to Curtis B. Dall, youthful manager of the syndicate department of Lehman Bros, (bankers), Manhattan. Miss Roosevelt's father is the son of the late James Roosevelt, and her mother is the only daughter of the late Elliot Roosevelt, who was only brother of the late Theodore Roosevelt. In 1905 President Roosevelt came from Washington...
...problem. The adherence has been promulgated under a resolution requested by a Republican president, introduced by a Democratic senator, sponsored by a non-partisan majority, and opposed by an irregular Republican minority. Does the act but fulfill the old Republican promise of 1920? Does it vindicate the leadership of Calvin Coolidge? Or does it split his party irreparably? Does it end an old battle or begin...
...Again who is this two-star artist who intimates that because he was appointed by Calvin Coolidge he is immune from public criticism...