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In its Dec. 5, 1923, edition, The New York Times reported that “the voice of President [Calvin] Coolidge, addressing Congress tomorrow, ... agriculture, Prohibition and immigration policy.
Calvin Coolidge’s government had just imposed new measures to force revelers to abide by Prohibition. These measures were killing American citizens. Whiskey, Fraud & Murder: The Bootleg King of ...
George Cassiday, known as “the Man in the Green Hat,” operated for a decade, from the start of Prohibition in 1920 through the presidencies of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert ...
On July 4th, 1872, Vermont’s own President Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth Notch. Coolidge was elected vice president in 1920 and became president in 1923 after President Warren Harding died in ...
Last week a great & good friend of Calvin Coolidge disturbed Washington by crying “guts.” Declared Seattle’s Kenneth Mackintosh, member of the National Commission on Law Observance and ...
In 1920, Prohibition goes into effect, ... Republican Calvin Coolidge crushes the crippled Democrats in November, and the Drys remain confident that Prohibition can be made to work.
What might have developed into a controversy as famed as the one that raged over Calvin Coolidge’s “I do not choose,” was averted when Prof. Fisher agreed that the result which Mr. Taft ...
On this day in 1928, Republican Herbert Hoover defeated Democrat Alfred E. Smith in their contest to determine who would succeed Calvin Coolidge in the White House. Hoover amassed 444 votes in the ...
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, second from left, and his wife, first lady Grace Coolidge, third from left, are shown with the President of Cuba General Gerardo Machado y Morales, right, and his ...
John Calvin Coolidge came into the world there on July 4, 1872, the only president born on Independence Day. He was part of the fifth generation of Coolidges to live in Plymouth Notch.
George Cassiday, known as “the Man in the Green Hat,” operated for a decade, from the start of Prohibition in 1920 through the presidencies of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert ...