Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amherst Alumni dinner, held last week in Manhattan (which Alumnus Calvin Coolidge was unable to attend), anecdotes of the President were told, including...
...Colonel John, when his son was 15, conceived that Calvin might do better in a drugstore than at college. In those days, druggists sold liquor openly. When Calvin was told, he answered...
Chief Justice Taft and the President rose together. Without notes, Mr. Taft administered the brief oath: "Calvin Coolidge, do you solemnly swear that you will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will to the best of your ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help...
...Sept. 13; Dr. Fosdick will: preach to the League of Nations from the pulpit of John Calvin, founder of Presbyterianism, in the Cathedral Church, Geneva, Switzerland. He will then proceed to the Holy Land...
...were in hot dispute when our friend (James Jenkins for short) came into the fray. I bade him read carefully the whole article and then tell us whether or not he thought it unbiased. All three of us voted for Calvin Coolidge last November. We awaited Jenkins' opinion somewhat avidly. PERKINS: "Well, do you call that unbiased?" JENKINS: "I do not." 1 : "Then I lose. You both agree that it is undignified." JENKINS: "Not undignified, but not unbiased, either. A blarney article. I'm after thinking it a lot of soft soap in eulogy of Coolidge...