Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funeral ceremonies of Calvin Coolidge Jr. were as simple as could be arranged for the son of a President. The coffin lay in the East Room of the White House, covered with pink and white roses and guarded by a small detachment of Marines. Services, consisting of hymns and a few passages from the Scriptures, were read in the presence of those members of the official group who remained in Washington. Less intimate friends were permitted to assemble on the north lawn during the service...
...National Education Association (see EDUCATION), receiving 45,000 congratulatory messages, including a birthday card an inch thick and signed by 20,000 Massachusetts men, and several bedfuls of flowers. That afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, looking grave, went to the Walter Reed Hospital. In one of the rooms lay Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 16, their youngest son, stricken suddenly with virulent septic poisoning that had settled in the tibia of his right leg as the result of a tennis blister. Dr. John B. Deaver, of Philadelphia, operated, but by evening it was known that the patient's condition was extremely...
Rykov's position in Russia approximates that of Calvin Coolidge in the U. S. He is to a large extent the Chief Executive of Soviet Russia. The fact that little is ever heard of him is merely a silent indication of his character. He works quietly, despises the methods and noise of the demagogue, is exceedingly simple and direct in all his movements. "He is the kind of man who, however violently one may disagree with him, does not stir personal animosity. He never ridicules, never denounces, never even flares up. He seems as incapable of deep hate...
...Died. Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 16, son of President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge; at Washington, of blood poisoning. (See Page...
...only income tax payer in the U. S. who did not benefit by the 25% reduction in taxes is Calvin Coolidge. According to Constitutional provision the President's salary may not be increased or decreased while in office. The courts have ruled that a change in the tax rates is in effect a change in the amount of compensation which an officeholder receives. On account of this ruling, President Wilson while in office paid no income tax, since there were no income taxes when he took office. Similarly Calvin Coolidge must continue to pay the same income tax rate...