Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under the hand and seal of the President of the United States, to whomever it might concern, it was proclaimed that Calvin Coolidge, by virtue of his office and powers conferred upon him, did set aside 1,820 square miles of the public domain and consecrate it to the uses of a national monument, to be known as Glacier Bay National Monument. The new monument, on the south-east coast of Alaska, includes several tidewater glaciers...
...Ross will be received with all due acclamation, as the first lady governor, and the President has deviated from his program of economy to the extent of having his reviewing stand glassed in. Such are the news reports from the nation's capital relative to the second installation of Calvin Coolidge as the nation's chief executive...
...after a memorable farewell dinner at which Lieutenant-Governor Calvin Coolidge presided, Dr. Burton became President of the University of Minnesota. He was there three years, whence he went to the University of Michigan and it was from there that his old friend Calvin Coolidge called him one day last June to deliver a nominating speech on his behalf at the Cleveland Convention of the Republican Party. It was Dr. Burton's only excursion into politics, although he had a definite bent in that direction. That speech brought Dr. Burton no mean amount of fame at the time...
...been President for 18 months and promises to be for 48 months more. Yet the public still knows him only by his masks-witness his nicknames: "Calvin the Cool," "Cautious Cal," "Calvin the Silent," "Economy Cal"-and it is said that in London he is known as "Courageous Cal," in Paris as "Le Capitaine...
...joint session with the House of Representatives and canvassed the electoral vote for President and Vice President, declaring Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes elected...