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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Precedent. In 1915, having completed a pro tempore term as president of the Massachusetts Senate, Calvin Coolidge abruptly handed a slip of paper to his good friend, Frank W. Stearns, of Boston. _ The slip read: "I am a candidate for Lieutenant Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shock | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...Republican party was genuinely "stunned" but it soon recovered poise. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington observers, pictured the G. O. P. proper as a body of hard-working politicians like Senators Smoot, Willis and David A. Reed, Secretary Mellon, Vice President Dawes, Frank O. Lowden, Nicholas Longworth ? men among whom Calvin Coolidge is, by temperament and tradition, a virtual stranger. These men, thought Mr. Sullivan, would be sorry to lose so good a vote-getter as Calvin Coolidge but ? personal ambitions quite aside ? they would not seek to nominate him now because that would be "the sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shock | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...ablest performers suddenly learned that the big solo part might have to be reassigned. While the performers tuned up and decided what to play, their friends bowed to the audience to make preliminary introductions. Henry Ford bowed for Herbert C. Hoover. William Randolph Hearst bowed for Andrew W. Mellon. Frank 0. Lowden rushed home to Illinois from the Thousand Islands and repeated his favorite cryptogram about no man ever running away from the presidency. Vice President Dawes clenched his pipe in a grin and said he would "saw wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shock | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Friends bowed, more and less impressively, for Charles Evans Hughes, Nicholas Longworth,? Simeon D. Fess, Arthur Capper, William Edgar Borah, George William Norris, Herbert Spencer Hadley, James E. Watson, Hiram Warren Johnson, Frank Bartlette Willis and many another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shock | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Married. Miss Dorothy Mondell, daughter of onetime (1899-1923) congressman Frank Wheeler Mondell, to Alexander White Gregg, 28, chief Consul for the U. S. Internal Revenue Bureau (TIME, Jan. 17); at Newcastle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 8, 1927 | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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