Word: friend
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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...
...National Committeemen from whom it had elicited expressions refused to believe that President Coolidge would ignore a party call. Governor Fuller of Massachusetts led a New England chorus of even stronger effect: Calvin Coolidge would be wanted again and he would have to respond. The President's closest political friend of all, Chairman William M. Butler of the Republican National Committee, steadfastly refused to be convinced that all was said and done. New Jersey Republicans actually formed a Coolidge Draft Club, sayng: "We draft soldiers in time of war; why should we not draft public officials in time of peace...
...When Military Governor of Cuba he led the fight to stamp out yellow fever, put a turbulent island in order, ready for independence in 1902. When Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army he became the "Father of Plattsburg, " the creator of civilian military training camps, a staunch friend of "preparedness...
Said Theodore Roosevelt: "He has been an intimate friend of the family since the days when I was only eight or nine years old and when he and my father used to take all of us children on walks with them on Sundays...
Everyone knows that Ahmed Fuad I is a British puppet and unpopular in Egypt, but honor done to him is still honor done to the Egyptian masses who must in the end attain their destiny and choose what nations to call "friend." While King Fuad was in residence with Italian royalty, he and his entire suite were required to enact a quaint mummery so that he might call at the Vatican. Etiquette forbids that any person shall pass directly between a residence of the King of Italy and the residence of the Pope. Therefore King Fuad was obliged to "reside...