Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year to year, the same losses in comparable European countries tend to decrease. For the most recent comparable periods fire losses in Great Britain are calculated at less than $1 per capita per annum, while those of the United States are placed at approximately $5 per capita. . . . Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, recommend that the week beginning Sunday, Oct. 4, be observed as National Fire Prevention Week...
...signed) CALVIN COOLIDGE...
...first time in history the President of the U. S. is the nominal head of a religious denomination-for Calvin Coolidge is Honorary Moderator of the Congregational Church (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923). But it must not be forgotten that the head of another Church is an ex-President of the U. S.-William Howard Taft. Since 1915 Mr. Taft has been President of the General Conference of the Unitarian Church...
...Clarence Cook Little '10, formerly secretary to the Corporation and more recently President of the University of Maine, has now taken over his new duties as President of the University of Michigan. He succeeds the late President Marlon LeRoy Burton, the noted educator who nominated Calvin Coolidge for the Presidency of the United States a year and a half...
When with a ringing of bells, a great steel worm of a train slid into the Union Station at Washington, and Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge descended the car steps to the porter's rubber cushioned stool, there were three smiling faces looking up at them from the platform. There was the chubby face of the Secretary of Commerce; there was the long, lean face of the Secretary of Agriculture smiling from beneath its domed forehead; and there were the stone-chiseled features of the Secretary of State. He too smiled as he waited there, his head thrust forward over...