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...Wilber begins to tell me of his admiration for Calvin Coolidge (Herbert Hoover was another convention favorite), his wife appears and asks about a man who has just walked into the hotel and wants to be a delegate. Wilber instructs her to have him pay his money, sign in, and wait for some brief questioning. Convention officials make no secret of any of this. The next day, when the roll call for president reaches Maine, a debate between the state chairman and convention secretary ensues over whether Maine has paid $100 each for the number of delegates they claim...
...Calvin D. Ream Wewahitchka...
...born-again interest in political action will benefit Carter, of course. Paul Henry, professor at the conservative Protestant Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Republican chairman in Ford's home county, argues that "Carter has been able to exploit the religious issue because he speaks the language more freely." But Henry and other evangelicals believe that many of the conservative Protestants' votes will eventually go to Episcopalian Ford, who professes to be something of an evangelical and whose son Michael attends the evangelical Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. Ford has wooed the conservative Christian...
...boom and take credit for it. They moved closer to Big Business and pursued the twin policies of high tariffs and low taxes. The loudest dissenting voice was that of farmers, whose prices fell throughout the period. The era was symbolized by the presidency of the flinty Yankee Calvin Coolidge, who did and said as little as possible. The country, he was sure, could run itself?and for a time, at least, he was right...
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a well-known writer well before Uncle Tom's Cabin made her rich and famous. For a time, she and her preacher husband Calvin Stowe were too poor to afford a servant. Mrs. Stowe ran her house, cared for her twin daughters (the first two of seven children), churned out genteel, folksy stories and religious essays to help make ends meet. Uncle Tom's Cabin changed all that. It was the first great American bestseller. In its initial year in print it sold 300,000 copies, and eventually more than 3 million American readers...