Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hisses. The speaker set the crowd cheering again, however, by crying: "We'll send word to New York tonight that we wouldn't swap our backfield for what's supposed to be the best backfield in the country. We wouldn't swap our ends. Bradford and Sayles, for Calvin Coolidge and the Secretary of State. We wouldn't swap our line for a French liner with all on board sailing east beyond the three-mile limit. And we wouldn't swap Bob Fisher and Charley Daly and Leo Leary and Eddie Mahan and Charley Tierney for all the Hawleys...
Died. Almon W. Coolidge, cousin of President Calvin Coolidge, a carpenter; at Rochester, N. Y., where with the aid of his wife he had been compiling a genealogy of the Coolidge family...
...opening of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in Washington, Mrs. William Howard Taft, Justice and Mrs. Harlan F. Stone and Mrs. Robert Lansing sat in the audience, and as they opened their programs their eyes fell on the name of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge heading the list of patrons and patronesses. Later their eyes wandered to the box at the right of the stage decorated with the seal of the U. S. and two small American flags. They saw no one there; the President's box was quite empty. But a few keen-eyed watchers detected a familiar figure...
...therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, do hereby set apart Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of November next, as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer...
...Meeting at Worcester, Mass., the American Antiquarian Society celebrated the acquisition of 3,821 bound volumes, 9,755 pamphlets and 1,137 engravings, broadsides and maps, and also elected Calvin Coolidge to membership in its learned ranks. Other U. S. Presidents who have been members of the Society: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson...