Word: gods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Definition by President Coolidge (TIME, June 25). -Christ's cry on the cross. Translation: "My 'God! My God! Why hast thou forsaken...
...have been nominated for the most important position in the world. Your great ability and your wide experience will enable you to serve our party and our country with marked distinction. I wish you all the success that your heart could desire. May God continue to bestow upon you the power to do your duty."* Calvin Coolidge to Herbert Clark Hoover, via telegraph...
...Thus far my government has not lacked the goodwill of the country, nor the protection of God, nor the King's confidence. . . . The heirs of my government never will be the leaders of the regime which preceded mine, but will continue my policies and will be drawn from the Party of Patriotic Union [founded by the dictator among military menand staunch monarchists...
...Republican Convention (see p. 9). Will Rogers spoke without reverence but he spoke the truth. Four divines - an Episcopalian, a Catholic, a Hebrew and a Methodist-had. prayed on four successive days with a great air of spontaneity but without lifting their eyes from the written page to God. Though extemporaneous outpourings could only reasonably have been expected from the Methodist, it was a pity, devout observers felt, that the appearance, at least, of immediate inspiration had not been affected...
...sale (Twin City Sentinel), Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23, 1926) reduced the number of his newspapers to thirteen. He was not in a position to challenge the Hearst or Scripps-Howard chains, *but he had become a dominant influence in upstate New York, an unobtrusive god in a territory of more than 5,000,000 citizens. He is now a man of wealth, insured for $1,000,000, with properties for which he holds $15,000,000 too low a price...