Presidential candidate Calvin Coolidge, left, and his running mate ... But to a senator, eliminating the filibuster was akin to denying a baseball player the option of laying down a drag bunt ...
Most presidents are enigmas. George Washington’s iron self-control made him a mystery. After more than a decade of research that included full access to his subject and those close to him ...
On March 4, 1925, nearly 100 years ago, President Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated for a second time. He served a partial term beginning in 1923 after the death of President Warren G. Harding. Coolidge ...
12 News went to Calvin Coolidge Elementary School to the first local branch of the Imagination Library. Each month, students who have signed up will receive a free book in the mail to help ...
That president was Calvin Coolidge. He made that statement about immigration in his 1923 State of the Union address. What followed was the Immigration Act of 1924, which closed the door to almost ...
Calvinball is a fairly unique invention in Calvin and Hobbes, but it is somewhat simple to understand the game's otherwise complicated rules.
It read: “It is my painful duty to inform you of the death today of Calvin Coolidge. . . . There is no occasion for me to recount his eminent services. . . . His entire lifetime has been one of ...
At the end, when Coolidge girls’ basketball coach Derrick Davis Jr. was visiting his father at his nursing home on K Street, he knew he was having conversations that his dad would never remember.
Garvey, who died in 1940, was a civil rights leader who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment, a sentence that was commuted by President Calvin Coolidge in ...
Garvey, who died in 1940, was a civil rights leader who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment, a sentence that was commuted by President Calvin Coolidge in 1927 ...
The death of a sitting president brought about another unorthodox inauguration – this time in 1923 when Calvin Coolidge was sworn in using a family bible at the Vermont farmhouse in Plymouth ...
Calvin Coolidge, in his 1929 autobiography, also claims he didn’t use his family Bible when he was sworn in at his family’s Vermont home in the wake of Warren G. Harding’s death.