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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President was evidently " sizing up " the situation. He is a slow decider, but a firm decider when he decides. When he will decide and act Calvin Coolidge alone knows?it may be tomorrow or a month from tomorrow. It is expected that he will carry on vigorously those of the Harding policies which are popular with the Republican Party or with the people. Those that are more dubious of favor he may treat with discretion. The change of leaders offers a graceful retreat to the Republican Party from any policy which it regards as inadvisable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sphinxlike | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

...Vice President he was noteworthy for "keeping silent in 16 different languages." He has not the geniality of his predecessor, but those who know him say that there is more "steel" in his makeup. He is silent, shrewd, slow, firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Calvin Coolidge | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

...enters the White House with her sons, John and Calvin, for the first time since the Taft administration, there will be children in the Executive Mansion. Both sons are students at Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania). This Summer John, 17, is in attendance at a military training camp (Mr. Coolidge is firm believer in military and naval preparedness), and Calvin, 15, is working at $3.50 a day on a vacation (tobacco) farm. Later in the Summer when Mrs. Coolidge enters the White House, it is understood that her children will join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Lady | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

...Allen (on the Ohio Supreme Bench), and Edith Newman (advisor to General Crowder in drafting Cuban banking laws) to a multitude of women in private law offices, they are scattered everywhere. When the first convention assembles at Minneapolis, it will have for President Miss Emilie M. Bullowa, of the firm of Bullowa & Bullowa, New York (the rest of the firm being her two brothers), an authority on admiralty law, and for Vice Presidents, Kate Pier Mclntosh, of Milwaukee, and Judge Florence E. Allen, of Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Women | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

...store, established in 1870, is the second largest depart- ment store in Newark, and occupies one-quarter of a block admirably located with respect to the Pennsylvania Railroad, Public Service Terminal, Hudson Tubes and prospective subway developments. The new management, consisting of Messrs. Kresge and Plaut, and the banking firm of Merrill, Lynch & Co., expect to build up the balance of the ground floor space in the near future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kresge's New Chain | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

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