Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House, whither he had come before as politician, as Congressman, as Cabinet officer, came William J. Bryan as a Presbyterian. With him was his brother Charles W. and a delegation from the General Council of the Presbyterian Church to pass the time of day with Calvin Coolidge...
...Calvin Coolidge, Honorary President of the American Red Cross, telegraphed to John Barton Payne, Chairman of the organization, saying: "Information has reached me of the disaster [see SCIENCE] that has overtaken a portion of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana...
...this had happened, the country would have been in a furor of excitement. Yet such an action by those electors would have been completely authorized by the Constitution; and not only authorized but (if the electors deemed that Henry Ford was a more fitting President than Calvin Coolidge or any other) actually what the makers of the Constitution had intended. More than that, such an action might actually have taken place if, in their wisdom, the makers of the Constitution had decreed that the members of the electoral college were to meet all together instead of in their respective states...
...Sargent's schooling was delayed and he was still in the Black River Academy at Ludlow when Calvin Coolidge, twelve years his junior, came over from the hill-farm at Plymouth, twelve miles away. They say that the husky senior took care of the little fellow at hazing time...
...President Calvin Coolidge's award in the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chile and Peru (TIME, Mar. 16) was read with great rejoicing in the former country and with passive indignation in the latter...