Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprised when one of the men handed him a driver's license reading: "John Coolidge, age 21, height 6 ft., residence 21 Massasoit St., Northampton, Mass." The other man was William Cunningham, chauffeur of Governor Trumbull of Connecticut. But John Coolidge, returning from a visit to his mother and the Governor in Plainville, Conn., had been driving the Governor's car when it crashed. In the wrecked car were Wilfred Veno, professional hockey player, with a fractured skull and a slash across his neck from a broken windshield, and his mother, Mrs. Mary Veno, less seriously injured. They...
...answer is that he is a slender, grey-crested person with a Romish nose and a sartorial perfection suggestive of the stage. Who the hell is he? He was born on the Mother Lode of California 59 years ago and one of his parents had Mayflower ancestors. He is one of those persons who has been vaguely "associated with" and "closely allied with" various famous people. His biography gives a onetime State Engineer of New York, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and the late Major-General Leonard Wood, as references. He "has travelled in many parts...
...Coolidge went to Northampton, Mass., to stay, indefinitely, near her mother's sickbed...
...Columbus, Ohio, the mother chapter of the Anti-Saloon League published in The American Issue, its official organ, an editorial entitled "America's Strangest Political Campaign." Nominee Smith was described as representing "the sporty, jazz and liberal element of our population." The editorial also said: "If you believe in Anglo-Saxon Protestant domination. . . . you will vote for Hoover rather than Smith. . . . The Anglo-Saxon Protestants, working through both parties, have dominated America and made it what it is today-a world leader...
...dungeons (often by the services of the influential priest whom he called "my more than father"). Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile. With a farewell to his impoverished mother, whom he continually tried to comfort, he vanished from the city and from history...