On August 2, 1923, President Warren Harding suddenly died. Vice President Calvin Coolidge took the presidential oath of office, administered by his father, a justice of the peace. Myth has it that ...

Throughout his life, Coolidge referenced his boyhood in Vermont as the idyllic foundation for a work ethic that carried him through his life. "There are two things necessary for the enrichment of life ...

This year, the “threes” have it. 1923. The year Yankee Stadium opened. The year of the legendary Jack Dempsey-Luis Firpo fight took place. (There will be more of the latter in a coming issue.) In 1923 ...

A PURITAN IN BABYLON: The Story of Calvin Coolidge—William Allen White—Macmillan ($3.50). In spite of its subject—one of the most negative Presidents the U. S. ever had— orrl the fact that Country ...