Coolidge thought that if a newcomer wanted to be American, he deserved to be.
The latest variation, described on page 72 by Carrie Coolidge, is called return-of-premium term insurance.
Harding died in August 1923, but his successor Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) continued his policies.
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Then there's Martha Coolidge, the first woman to become President of the Directors Guild of America.
It is too much to hope that President Obama would take Coolidge's example to heart.
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In 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president after Warren G.
The deviations from this pattern (Harding, Coolidge, etc.) are extraordinarily fleeting, contingent, and historically insignificant.
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Coolidge himself winds up unscathed, a sort of gray white whale that has eluded its baleful hunter.
The second advantage was one Coolidge himself supplied: the discipline to use budget tools, new and old.
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Shlaes, in her lucid, informative, and entertaining way may not fully have succeeded in carving Coolidge onto Rushmore.
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But, mostly, Coolidge was learning how to rise, in barely detectable increments, through hard work and steady application.
Coolidge, or "Cash" as he was often called, had no formal training as an artist, and it shows.
Harding and Coolidge cut tax rates, capital was put at risk, the economy expanded and revenues rose 61%.
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The Coolidge administration, sandwiched between Genoa and Black Monday, had nothing to do with causing the Great Depression.
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It looked as if it had last been painted in the Coolidge Administration.
"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones, " Coolidge once advised his father.
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In the case of Coolidge's poker-playing dogs, the aesthetic value may be questionable--but then, that's not really the point.
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And, yes, most politicians, including Coolidge, Harding, Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, uttered unattractive, eugenicist statements from time to time.
Of course, no mayor has reached the White House since Calvin Coolidge, the former mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1923.
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Coolidge and Mellon carefully underscored the technical evidence, and there was plenty, that greater revenues might follow tax rate cuts.
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All of these ideas, but especially the idea of growth that threw off extra tax revenues, were relatively new to Coolidge.
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Coolidge believed immigrant communities had a strong role to play in America.
Woodrow Wilson also rode aboard a Cadillac limo, as did Presidents Coolidge, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan, Clinton and both Bushes.
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But Coolidge came in like a lion, determined to make austerity permanent.
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Coolidge's third advantage was insight into what might be called fiscal trust.
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Yes, Coolidge signed the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, which tightened quotas, and another Republican, Warren Harding, signed an earlier law that restricted entry.
The stereotype involving Coolidge is that he was a snobby New Englander, a member of the Mayflower crowd, who disliked the foreign born.
Coolidge gained his spot almost entirely as a result of the way, as governor, he had handled a strike by the Boston police.
And he had modest government experience as secretary of commerce under Harding and Coolidge, a job even less important than it is today.
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