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Coolidge_An American Enigma

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by Robert Sobel


  Connor, Theobald

  Conservatism

  Constitutional convention

  Constitutional Liberty League

  Conventions: balloting; brokered; Democratic Convention of 1920; Democratic Convention of 1924; Democratic Convention of 1928; Massachusetts Republican Convention; power of political bosses; Republican Convention of 1920; Republican Convention of 1924; Republican Convention of 1928

  Cook, Sherwin

  Coolidge, Abigail (sister): at Black River Academy; death of; relationship with brother

  Coolidge, Almeda (grandmother)

  Coolidge, Anne Priest (great-great-grandmother)

  Coolidge, Calvin, Jr. (son): birth of; death of; sense of humor

  Coolidge, Calvin Galusha (grand-father)

  Coolidge, Carrie Brown (stepmother)

  Coolidge, “Colonel.” See Coolidge, John (father)

  Coolidge, Grace Goodhue (wife): birth of first son; on Coolidge’s decision not to run for president; on Coolidge’s shyness; on Coolidge’s speeches as president; courtship; death of son; on Frank Stearns; letter from Frank Stearns; popularity of; reaction to vice presidential nomination; relationship with husband; on social function of vice presidency

  Coolidge, John (father): character of; comments on Coolidge’s character; death of; Harding’s death; monetary support to son; relationship with son; second wife; as senator in Vermont; suggestion to son concerning work

  Coolidge, John (great-great-grand-father)

  Coolidge, John (son)

  Coolidge, T. Jefferson

  Coolidge, Victoria Moor (mother): death of; relationship with son

  Coolidge and the Historians

  Coolidge Democrats

  Coolidge Wit and Wisdom: 125 Short Stories about “Cal,”

  Cooper, R.A.

  Corporate tax

  Cosmopolitan

  Cox, Channing

  Cox, James

  CPPA. See Conference for Progressive Political Action

  Cramer, Charles

  Crane, W. Murray: background information; Coolidge’s comments; death of; friendship with Coolidge; as mentor to Coolidge; opinion on League of Nations; retirement from U.S. Senate; support for Coolidge

  Crawford, William

  Creagar, R.B.

  Cum laude honors

  Curley, James

  Currency issue

  Current Opinion

  Currier, Guy

  Curtis, Charles: presidential candidate; role in Republican Party; role in Republican party–; as Senator; vice presidential nomination

  Curtis, Edwin U.

  Curtis-Crisp bill

  Cushing, Grafton

  The Cycles of American History

  Daily Hampshire Gazette

  Daily Herald

  Dale, Porter

  Daniels, Josephus

  Dartmouth College

  Daugherty, Harry: as Harding’s campaign manager; Harding’s death; scandal

  Davis, John W.

  Dawes, Charles G.: director of the Budget Bureau; support for Lowden; as vice president–; vice presidential nomination

  Dawes Plan

  Day, Clarence

  Death

  Debates: participation at Amherst College. See also Speeches

  Debs, Eugene V.

  Debt Refunding Agreement

  Defenders of Public Safety

  Democratic Convention: of 1920; of 1924; of 1928

  Denby, Edwin

  Dennis, Alfred Pierce

  Depew, Chauncey

  Depression of 1890s. See also Great Depression

  Dewey, Admiral George

  Diaz, Adolfo

  Dillingham, William P.

  Diplomatic service reorganization

  Discrimination

  Division of Cooperative Marketing

  Doheny, Edward

  Domestic issues: first term; second term

  Doubleday, Doran

  Douglas, William L.

  Dow-Jones averages

  Drury, S.D.

  Duffield, Edward

  Dun & Company

  Durant, William C.

  Eberstadt, Ferdinand

  Economic issues: of 1997; Coolidge’s policies; early warning signs of market collapse; Harding’s policies; international issues; post-war recession; statement on; stock market crash; stock market fluctuations; unemployment rate

  Education: Amherst College; Black River Academy; elementary school years; St. Johnsbury Academy

  Electoral votes

  Elementary school years

  Elk Hill (Calif.) scandal

  Elkins, William L.

  Emmerson, Louis

  Encyclopedia Americana

  Equal opportunity platform

  Equalization fee

  Estate taxes

  Ethics

  Evans, Hiram

  Eyring, Henry

  Fairbanks, Newton

  Fall, Albert

  Family. See specific individuals by name

  Faris, H.P.

  Farm bill

  Farm bloc

  Farm cooperatives

  Farmer-Labor Party

  Farmers. See Agricultural issues

  Federal building construction

  Federal Farm Board

  Federal Reserve Board

  Federal Trade Commission

  Ferguson, “Farmer Jim,”

  Ferguson, “Ma,”

  Ferrell, Robert

  Field, Henry P.: attendance at Amherst College graduation; Coolidge’s position in law office; as mayor of Northampton, Mass.; role in local politics; support for Coolidge

  Firemen’s union

  First Congregational Church

  Fitzgerald, John F.

  Flood control legislation

  Florida land boom

  Foley, Margaret

  Foraker, Joseph

  Forbes, Charles

  Ford, Henry

  Ford Motor Company

  Fordney, Joseph

  Fordney-McCumber Tariff

  Foreign debt

  Foreign relations

  Fosdick, Raymond

  Foss, Eugene

  France, relations with America

  Fraternities

  Frazer, Lynn

  French, Fred

  Friars Club

  Frick, Henry Clay

  FTC. See Federal Trade Commission

  Fuess, Claude

  Fuller, Alvan

  Fuller, F.F.

  Funston, Keith

  Garman, Charles

  Gary, Indiana, steelworkers’ strike

  Gaston, Lucy

  Geisser, Erwin

  General Court, veto of salary increase

  General Motors

  General Purchasing Board

  Geneva Conference

  Geneva Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes

  Germany, Dawes Plan

  Gift taxes

  Gilbert, Clinton

  Gillett, Frederick

  Goff, Guy

  Gold standard. See Currency issue

  Gompers, Samuel

  Good Government Association

  Goodhue, Andrew

  Goodhue, Grace Anna. See Coolidge, Grace Goodhue (wife)

  Goodhue, Lemira Barrett

  Government spending

  Governorship: Boston police strike; campaign; desire to be elected; election; first term; inaugural address; last week of; nomination; second term; vice presidential campaign

  Graduation: from Amherst College; from Black River Academy

  Grange

  Grant, Elihu

  Great Depression

  Greenhalge, Frederic

  Greenspan, Alan

  Greenwood, Levi

  Gregory, Thomas

  Grew, Joseph

  Gridiron Dinner

  Grove Oration

  Grozier, Edwin

  Guild, Curtis, Jr.

  Hale, Matthew

  Ham, Guy

  Hammond, Joh
n C.

  Hammond, John Hays

  Hanna, Mark

  Hansen, Ole

  Harbord, James

  Harding, Florence DeWolfe

  Harding, Warren: campaign spending; compared with Coolidge; Coolidge’s role as vice president; death of; historians’ view of; political program; presidency–; presidential campaign; presidential election; presidential nomination; scandals of administration; support for Coolidge; trip to Alaska

  Hardy, Ernest

  Harrison, George

  Hart, Louis

  Harvey, George

  Harview, Ernest

  Have Faith in Massachusetts

  “Have Faith in Massachusetts” speech

  Hayek, Frederick

  Health: during childhood; at end of presidency; of family

  Health insurance program

  Hemenway, Ralph

  Hennessy, Michael

  Herrick, Myron

  Hesler, Curtis

  Hisgen, Thomas

  Historians’ view of Coolidge. See Character

  History courses

  Hoar, Walter

  Hobbies

  Hollings, Ernest

  Homestead strike

  Honeymoon

  Hoosac and Quinsett Mills

  Hoover, Herbert: on McNary-Haugen bill; as member of Coolidge’s cabinet; as member of Harding’s cabinet; presidency; as presidential candidate; presidential nomination; relationship with Coolidge; support for Coolidge

  Hoover Dam

  Hopkinson, Charles

  House Committee on War Expenditures

  House Military Affairs Committee

  Houston, David

  Howard, Paul

  Howard University

  Hubert, Conrad

  Huerta, Victoriano

  Hughes, Charles Evans

  Hughes, H. Stuart

  Humphrey, William E.

  Hyde Fifteen

  Image of Coolidge. See Character

  Immigrants, patriotism of

  Immigration restriction

  Inaugural addresses: governorship; mayoralty of Northampton; 1921; presidential

  Inauguration of 1921,

  Income taxes

  Independent League

  Individualism, Coolidge’s belief in

  Industrial conference, speech to

  Industry. See Labor issues

  Inflation

  Influenza pandemic

  Inside the Harding Tragedy

  Insurance Plan

  Integration

  Interborough Rapid Transit

  International Workers of the World

  Interviews, as presidential candidate in 1920

  Irish-Americans

  IRT. See Interborough Rapid Transit

  Irwin, Dick

  IWW. See International Workers of the World

  J. Wesley Ladd prize

  Japan, immigration restriction

  Jardine, William

  Jefferis, A.W.

  Jeffersonian philosophy

  Jitneys

  Johnson, Forney

  Johnson, Hiram: on Coolidge’s death; opposition to Coolidge as presidential candidate

  Jones, Francis

  Jones, Marvin

  Jones-White Act of 1928

  Journal of the Senate

  Joyner, Herbert

  J.P. Morgan & Company

  Judiciary Committee

  Kangaroo election

  Keith-Albee-Orpheum

  Kellogg, Frank

  Kellogg-Briand Pact

  Kendrick, John

  Kennedy, John

  Kent, Frank

  Kent’s Commentaries

  Kenyon, William

  Kenyon Committee

  Keystone Wire & Steel

  King, John

  King George V,

  Knox, Philander

  Ku Klux Klan: Coolidge’s view of; Dawes’s view of; Democrats’ view of; revival of

  La Follette, Robert: illness; offer of vice presidency; opposition to Taft; as presidential candidate –; relationship with Coolidge; Republican Party chairmanship

  La Follette, Robert, Jr.

  Labor issues: child labor amendment; Coolidge’s relationship with business; as member of Massachusetts House of Representatives; speech to industrial conference; wages and hours legislation; work week length; workmen’s compensation. See also Strikes; Unions

  Ladd, Edwin

  Ladd prize

  Ladies Home Journal

  Lamb Club

  Lambert, John

  Landon, Alf

  Lane, Ann

  Lane, Franklin

  Lane, L.L.

  Lansing, Robert

  Lasker, Albert

  Lathem, Edward

  Law career. See Legal career

  Lawrence, Massachusetts, textile workers’ strike

  League of Nations

  Legal career: application for admission to the bar; background information; Hemenway becomes partner; law practice in Northampton, Mass.; letter to father concerning law school; position at Hammond & Field

  Lenroot, Irvine

  Leonard Wood League

  The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political

  Leuchtenberg, William

  Levinson, Salmon

  Lewis, John L.

  Liberalism

  Liberty magazine

  Lieutenant governorship: campaign for; duties as

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lincoln, Charles

  Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

  Lindbergh, Charles A.

  Lippmann, Walter

  Lister, Ernest

  Literary Digest

  Locarno Agreements

  Lodge, Henry Cabot: background; as chairman of 1920 Republican Convention; death of; League of Nations position; oil lease scandal position; relationship with Coolidge; role at 1924 convention; support for Coolidge; support for Crane; vote against Coolidge for presidential nomination

  Lomasney, Martin

  Long, Henry

  Long, Richard

  Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

  Longworth, Nicholas

  Lowden, Frank: as presidential candidate; as vice presidential candidate

  Lucey, Jim

  Ludlow, Vermont

  Lutts, Carlton

  Lynd, Helen

  Lynd, Robert

  MacDonald, Duncan

  Magazine articles

  Malony, Joseph

  Mammoth Oil Company

  The Man Nobody Knows

  Mansfield, Frederick

  Marion Star

  Marriage

  Marshall, Thomas

  Mason Builders’ Association

  Massachusetts: constitutional convention; Coolidge as governor; House of Representatives; Republican Convention state senate. See also specific cities and towns

  Massachusetts Bay Colony

  Massachusetts Gang

  Materialism

  Mayfield, Earle

  Maynard, Robert

  Mayoralty of Northampton

  McAdoo, William Gibbs

  McCain, John

  McCall, Samuel: as candidate for governor; as governor

  McCamant, Wallace

  McCarthy, Michael

  McClure Newspaper Syndicate

  McCormick, Medill

  McCumber, Porter

  McInerney, Joseph

  McKinley, William

  McKnight, Edwin

  McLean, Edward

  McNary-Haugen Bill

  Means, Gaston

  Mellon, Andrew: as member of Coolidge’s cabinet; as member of Harding’s cabinet

  Memoirs: The Cabinet and the Presidency

  Mencken, H.L.

  Merchant Marine Act of 1920

  Merchant marines

  Mexico, relations with America

  Michigan Sugar

  Middletown

  The Mind of the President

  Mississippi flood of 1927

  Moderation League
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  Moncada, Jose

  Mondell, Frank

  Monetary system. See Currency issue

  Monroe Doctrine

  Moody’s Investment Service

  Moor, Victoria. See Coolidge, Victoria Moor (mother)

  Moore, Roy

  Morality

  Moran, John B.

  Morgan, J.P.

  Morris, George

  Morrow, Anne

  Morrow, Dwight

  Morse, Anson Daniel

  Moses, George

  Mount Rushmore National Memorial

  Muncie, Indiana

  Municipal planning

  Murray, Robert

  Muscle Shoals

  Myers, Henry

  Napoleonic Wars

  Nation

  National Association of Letter Carriers

  National Broadcasting Company

  National Cash Register

  National conventions: power of political bosses; Republican Convention of 1920

  National Fertilizer Association

  National Republican Club

  Nationalization of Mexico

  Navy: limiting of forces; merchant marines; oil lease scandals; Washington Naval Conference

  Nevins, Allan

  New Capitalism

  New Deal

  New Era

  New Republic

  New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad

  New York, strikes

  New York Federal Reserve Bank

  New York Journal of Commerce

  New York Life Insurance Company

  New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association

  New York Stock Exchange

  Newspaper columns

  Newton, Elmer Slayton

  Nicaragua, relations with America

  Nobel Peace Prize

  Noble Experiment

  Nonotuck Savings Bank

  Norris, George

  Northampton & Amherst Street Railway

  Northampton, Massachusetts: description of; law practice; mayor of

  Northampton Republican Committee

  Northampton School Board

  Notification Day

  NYSE. See New York Stock Exchange

  Obregon, General Alvaro

  O’Brien, James

  O’Donnell, John

  Oil Conservation Board

  Oil lease scandals

  Old Colony Trust Company

  Oldfield, William

  Olds, Dr. George

  Omaha, Nebraska, race riot

  O’Meara, Stephen

  O’Neal, Joseph

  Otis Elevator

  Our Family Physician

  Overman, Lee

  Palmer, A. Mitchell

  Pan-American Petroleum and Transportation Company

  Panamanian Revolution

  Parker, Herbert

  Parker, James

  Patriotism, as theme speeches

  Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association

 

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