Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Justice Stone played guard on Amherst football teams when slender, rusty-haired Calvin Coolidge was there at college, a class behind. A powerful man of 200 lb., he knocked the wind out of President Hoover in one of the medicine-ball games last month. For two days little Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium (see p. 21), bore a red mark on his nose after attempting to catch one of Justice Stone's mighty throws. The Stone roughness was sufficient to cause protests to the President; reminders that, after...
...president. Sabrina, Amherst's famed 350-lb. "goddess" statue, was stolen from the class of '93 for the '94 class dinner. Afterwards, "Doc" Stone helped sneak Sabrina to the barn of Herman C. Harvey, back in Chesterfield, there to hide her away under the floor from Calvin Coolidge's class. Agnes Harvey, Mr. Harvey's daughter, was a discreet girl. She could keep the secret of Sabrina. "Doc" Stone married...
...Against the thesis of the British Admiralty that a nation's requirements for defense are absolute (specifically in the instance of light cruisers), Herbert Hoover maintains, as did Calvin Coolidge. that they are relative. Thus the British have insisted that they need a certain number of light cruisers, irrespective of how many or how few are possessed by other nations; but it remains the U. S. contention that more or less of these ships are required by a given country, in proportion as the number of prospective enemy ships is great or small...
...Citizen Calvin Coolidge, in spite of himself, was back in the news last week. The New York Evening Post advertised and republished his article on national defense. The National Geographic Society elected him a director. And he went trout-fishing in Connecticut without a license...
...Vice President angrily explained that the Willard Hotel, where lived Thomas R. Marshall and Calvin Coolidge as Vice Presidents, had "made a proposition" to him of free rent, which he rejected. Continuing, he said...