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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Masses of children covered the White House lawns on the Monday after Easter. On that day, Calvin Coolidge Jr. would have had his 17th birthday. The children rolled eggs, were greeted by Calvin Jr.'s parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Apr. 20, 1925 | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

When Premier Herriot fell from the grace of the Senate, last week (TIME, Apr. 13), for secretly pursuing a policy of inflation, U. S. President Calvin Coolidge took what was called an "unprecedented step": he paid tribute to the fallen Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Coolidge Criticized | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

Years hence, the "Personal Letters of Calvin Coolidge" are likely to be syndicated to the newspapers, published in book form, relegated to library stacks, listed in scholarly bibliographies. One letter, certain to be included if not previously destroyed, is a paternal rebuke to John Coolidge, Amherst Freshman. Whether the letter is long or short, stern or gentle, specific or general probably no one but father and son now knows. But this was its old, old theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Simple | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

Americans of 1925 are prone to think of Calvin Coolidge as unique among presidents for his taciturnity. That such is far from the case, however, is clear from an account of half a century ago in the Magenta, as the CRIMSON was called in its infant years, describing the Lexington and Concord centennial celebration of April 19, 1875. Only a Harvard cheer, "given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering," was able to evoke from President Grant even "a faint motion of the risible muscles" on that historic occasion. If, as rumor has it, President Coolidge visits Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grant Out-Coolidged Coolidge in Taciturnity According to Magenta's Account of His Concord Appearance in 1875 | 4/4/1925 | See Source »

...history persists in its little habit of repeating itself, the above might well be taken as a prophecy of what will happen when Calvin Coolidge appears in the Yard although it is understood that the University authorities will take every precaution to prevent the repetition of the "ominous incident" that occurred at Concord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grant Out-Coolidged Coolidge in Taciturnity According to Magenta's Account of His Concord Appearance in 1875 | 4/4/1925 | See Source »

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