Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dakota when that President electrified the country and drew all citizens' puzzled attention Dakotawards by his ten laconic words: "I do not choose to run for President in 1928." After the election of 1928 restored Calvin Coolidge to private life, South Dakota joined the parade of those seeking to enlist his laconic literary talent. It was arranged that he should write a 500-word history of the U. S. for Sculptor Gutzon Borglum to carve upon the granite face of Mount Rushmore, popular eminence in the Black Hills...