Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Like Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge in the White House promoted intimate publicity by letting the Press learn the comings and goings, the small doings of himself & relatives. Like Woodrow Wilson, President Hoover objects to such family publicity. He considers the private side of his life and of those about him something in which the public can have no legitimate interest. To him the White House is a home as sacred from intrusion as his own Palo Alto residence. Yet last week he put aside his distaste for this type of publicity to the extent of allowing two of his grandchildren...
Another milestone in the artistic progress of Gutzon Borglum, carver of mountains, was marked last week by a clash with Calvin Coolidge and a hurried meeting of the trustees of the Mount Rushmore Memorial Association in Chicago's Union League Club...
While members of Chicago's Union League Club strove last week to find a successor to Calvin Coolidge (see below), members of New York's Union League Club hustled the nude figure of Paul Robeson to the club librarian's office...
...similar yet as opposite as the poles of an electric cell are Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Emanuel Smith. The nearer the parallel of their careers, the more emphatic the difference in the men. Last week Citizen Smith followed another turn in Citizen Coolidge's tracks, signed a contract to write a newspaper colyum. Under the probable heading "The State of the Nation," Colyumist Smith will write (beginning Jan. 4) for McNaught Syndicate between 1,000 and 1,500 words for each Sunday-the one day of the week when Colyumist Coolidge does not appear. He may discuss "politics...
Until last fortnight the Coolidge colyum appeared on page 1 of the Boston Post under the Bostonesque heading: "Thinking Things over With Calvin Coolidge." A few days before Election Day-with its local Democratic landslide-the Post relegated Mr. Coolidge to Page 31. Since then, only a little boxed front-page notice has appeared to tell Colyumist Coolidge's largest Massachusetts audience where he may be found...