Coolidge, p.74
Coolidge, page 74
Pure Food and Drug Act and, 94–95
of railroads, 99–101
Relief mission, Coolidge and Hoover’s, 358–60
Religious faith
Coolidge and, 6, 33, 42, 59, 256, 267–68, 302
Coolidge family’s, 14–16, 20
Grace Coolidge’s, 246–47
Representative, Coolidge as. See State representative, Coolidge as
Republican Party
at Amherst College, 38, 43
Chicago convention of, 141–42, 198–202
Cleveland convention of, 293–94
Coolidge administration and, 273
Coolidge as chairman of Northampton, 82
Coolidge as presidential candidate for Massachusetts, 185–86
Coolidge’s joining of, in Northampton, 68–69
Coolidge’s work for, 82, 94, 117, 127–29, 450–53
decline of Whig Party and rise of, 49–50
desire of, for Coolidge to run again, 397
Harding administration midterm elections and, 242
Kansas City, convention at, 402
Massachusetts state representative campaign and, 94
Massachusetts state Senate presidency and, 121
of Northampton, 90
party platforms of, 127–30, 273, 290
in Plymouth, Vermont, 22
post-presidency activities of Coolidge for, 450–53
Progressive Party vs., 116–17
progressivism and, 177
results of Harding-Coolidge election for, 209
Reynolds, James Burton, 82, 188, 197
Richardson, Robert, 455
Riis, Jacob, 65
Riley, Ellen, 343, 347–48, 352, 371–73, 410, 419
Rioting, Boston Police strike and, 157–58, 160–63
Road commissioner, Coolidge’s father as, 57
Roberts, Owen, 281–82
Robertson Aircraft Corporation, 356, 366
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 211
Robinson, Joseph, 279, 327, 329, 344
Rob Roy (dog), 277, 283, 317, 319
Rogers, Maggie, 283
Rogers, Will, 8, 219, 257, 263–64, 296, 298, 309, 320, 339, 342, 343, 350, 362–64, 368, 382, 404, 412, 424, 435–36, 441, 446
Roosevelt, Alice, See Longworth, Alice Roosevelt
Roosevelt, Edith, 90
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 83, 414, 455
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 7, 83, 113, 149, 165, 166, 203, 206, 295, 350, 360, 450–54
Roosevelt, Quentin, 145
Roosevelt, Theodore, 83, 90, 114, 116, 117, 127, 129, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 142, 144, 146, 147, 182, 189, 190, 211, 227, 247, 256, 260, 384, 432-34,
Coolidge and, 7
death of, 149
decision of, to not run, 105, 385
federal food and drug regulation by, 94–95
on Mount Rushmore, 375, 384, 386, 439
as New York police commissioner, 65
peace treaty and, 432–33
presidency of, 76–78, 84, 88, 94, 96, 100, 101, 103, 106, 188, 214, 221, 257, 319, 358, 379, 386
presidential campaign of, 82–83
Progressive Party of, 116–17
progressivism of, 88–90, 102
return of, to politics, 109, 112–13, 127, 419
in Spanish-American War, 71
Root, Elihu, 71, 105
Rosenwald, Julius, 436
Ross, Harry, 454
Rutland Railway Light and Power, 401
Ryan Airlines, 356
Sacco, Nicola, 383, 385, 415
St. Johnsbury Academy, 31–32, 399
San Carlos Irrigation Project, 293
Sanders, Everett, 367, 381, 397, 440–41, 451–53
Sandino, August, 377, 404
Sapelo Island, 426, 431
Sargent, John Garibaldi, 57–58, 63, 236, 329, 335, 337, 365, 392, 401, 424, 428, 444
Sawyer, C. E., 219, 249, 258
Scandals
Ponzi scheme, 203–4
in Harding administration, 232–33, 235, 244–45 (see also Teapot Dome scandal)
in Harding administration, as issue for Coolidge administration, 255, 262, 268–69, 322
Scandrett, Richard, 445
Schiff, Mortimer, 38
Schneider, Isidor, 454
School committee loss, Northampton, 86, 88, 90
School officer, Coolidge’s father as, 22–23
Schroeder, Rudolph, 194
Schurman, Jacob, 418
Scientific taxation idea, 265–67, 289, 310–11, 338–39, 341–42
Scudder, Vida, 115
Seattle, general strike in, 152
Securities Exchange Company, 203–4 (see also Ponzi scheme)
Seelye, Laurenus Clark, 105, 229
Selective Service Act, 143
Senate, Massachusetts. See State senator, Coolidge as
Senate, U.S.
Coolidge’s error in, 228
Coolidge vice-presidency and, 223
election of senators to, 181
Harding’s friends in, 214–15, 230
investigation by, of campaign spending and corruption, 196–97
rejection by, of donated residence for vice-president, 244
speech against, by Charles Dawes, 327–28
Service
Charles Edward Garman on, 52–53
Coolidge family philosophy of, 17
Coolidge’s philosophy of, 10
as ideal in Coolidge administration, 317, 323–24
as ideal in Coolidge vice-presidency, 234, 236, 252
Sesquicentennial of Battle of Bennington, 387, 390
Seventeenth Amendment, 181, 223
Sewage system regulation, 120–21
S. F. Bridgeman Bookstore, 68
Shakespeare, William, 15
Shaw, Edward, 61, 69, 318
Shays, Daniel, 2, 17, 64
Shays’s Rebellion, 171–72
Sheffield, James, 377
Sherman, George, 28–29, 32
Sherman Antitrust Act, 47, 77, 100, 103, 117–18, 316
Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 40, 43–44
Short story, Coolidge’s, 55
Shotwell, James, 411, 414
Silence, Coolidge’s
as advantage in presidential campaign, 308–9
as law clerk, 68
as liability in vice-presidency, 221, 224, 228, 238
as personal style, 73–74, 130
Silent majority phrase, 186, 424
Silver standard, 40, 43
Simmons, Furnifold, 339, 394
Sinclair, Harry, 227, 240, 269, 281, 295
Sinclair, Upton, 94–95
Sinclair Oil, 240
Sleight, Reuben, 401
Slemp, C. Bascom, 261, 274, 382
Smith, Alfred E., 295, 297, 424, 436, 455–56
Smith, Ira, 322
Smith, Jess, 247, 280
Smith, Jonathan, 172
Smith, Robert, 454
Smith, Sophia, 61
Smith College, 62, 104, 398–99
Smoot, Reed, 209, 262, 338–39, 378–79, 440
Snell, Bertrand, 452
“Snow-Bound” (poem), 16, 92
Socialist Party, 115
Social Register, 220–21, 224
Solicitor general, Coolidge as Northampton, 72, 74–76
Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, 55–56, 66–67
South Dakota summer White House, 367–68, 370–86
Spanish-American War, 71
Spargo, John, 387, 430
Speaking. See Public speaking
Special prosecutor, Coolidge administration, 281
Speculation, stock market, 425, 449
Speeches, Coolidge’s
to AFL, 151–52
to American Legion, 233–34, 336
at Amherst College, 37–39, 43–44, 48, 54–58
at Bennington, 430–31
at Black River Academy, 27, 29
book of (see Have Faith in Massachusetts (book))
at budget meeting, 296
for Charles Lindbergh, 365
at Coolidge inauguration, 326–28
eulogy for Warren Harding, 273
eulogy for William McKinley, 76
first presidential policy speech, 271–73
in Harding campaign in New England, 205–6
for Hoover at Madison Square Garden, 452–53
at inauguration as vice-president, 212–14
Lincoln Day Speech, 198
to Massachusetts state senate, 131–32
at Memorial Day in Northampton, 249
at Mount Rushmore, 384
payment for, 305
in Plymouth, 68, 210
presidential campaign, 195–96
radio broadcast of, 318
State of the Union address, 402–3
welcoming Woodrow Wilson to Boston, 149–50
Spencer, Selden, 10, 317
Spirit of St. Louis airplane, 365
Springfield Brewing Company, 106–7
Spruce, White House, 11, 301–3
Staab, Ralph, 130–31
Stables, White House, 434
Stafford, Wendell, 179
Standard Brands stock, 437, 440
Standard Oil, 98, 101, 106, 240
Starling, Edmund, 258, 260, 269–70, 275–76, 284, 316–18, 325, 326, 328, 329, 330, 333, 334, 343, 354–55, 373, 374, 380, 383, 385, 397, 398, 412, 419, 420, 424, 431, 436, 443, 450, 453
State House, Massachusetts, 95–96
State of the Union address, 402–3
State representative, Coolidge as, 94–105
State Senate president, Coolidge as, 121–24, 126–27, 129–35
State senator, Coolidge as, 111–12, 114–24
Stearns, Emily, 211–12, 333
Stearns, Foster, 143, 145–46, 220
Stearns, Frank
as Amherst College alumnus, 34
Amherst College sewage system and, 120–21
in Coolidge’s campaign for Massachusetts governor office, 146
in Coolidge’s campaign for Massachusetts lieutenant governor office, 136–39
Coolidge’s correspondence with, 236–38
at Coolidge’s funeral, 455
Coolidge’s gift to, 427
Coolidge’s retreats with, 141, 211–12, 333–34
on Coolidge’s vice-presidential nomination, 202
decision of, to advertise Coolidge, 133–34
department store of, 43
issues of, with Justice Department, 235
in publication of book of Coolidge’s speeches, 156–57, 187–88
Stebbins, Charles, 37
Steffens, Lincoln, 112
Stevens, Jesse F., 156
Stickney, William, 27, 58, 74, 454
Stimson, Henry, 348, 392, 404
Stock exchange, Boston, 55
Stocking, Jay, 48
Stock market. See also Dow Jones Industrial Average
Coolidge’s anticipation of crash of, 423–25, 436
crash of, after Coolidge administration, 11–12, 437–38, 440–41, 446, 449
effects of World War I on, 127, 133
Stoddard, Henry, 199, 453
Stone, Harlan
at Amherst College, 36, 44
at Columbia Law School, 57
as Coolidge administration attorney general, 284
on Coolidge’s speech, 58
as dean of Columbia Law School, 120
marriage of, 78
as Supreme Court justice, 324, 444
Store, Coolidge family, 14, 23
Storrow, James, 154, 158, 167
Stresemann, Gustav, 414, 418, 422
Strickland, William, 69
Strikes. See also Labor issues
Boston Police strike (see Boston Police strike)
Charles Edward Garman on, 52
by coal miners, 177, 181–84, 262–63
Harding administration and, 241–42
by Homestead Plant steelworkers, 39–40
public opinion against, 189–90
by railroad workers, 46–47
by telephone workers, 154–55
by United Mine Workers, 77–78
by woolen workers, 114–16
Strong, Caleb, 65–66
Subsidies, farm, 306
Subway system issue, 98
Suicides, Harding administration, 247
Sullivan, Mark, 385–86
Summer White Houses
in South Dakota Black Hills, 353–55, 367–68, 370–86
in Wisconsin, 419–21
Sumner, William Graham, 40, 43, 45, 50, 51, 192, 450
Supreme Court
Louis Brandeis on, 148
Lochner v. New York case, 84–85
Harlan Stone on, 324, 444
William Taft as chief justice of, 228
Surplus, federal budget, 330–31, 346
Swift, Morrison, 44–45
Swing, Phil, 426
Tafari, Ras, 390, 416
Taft, William, 105, 109, 112–13, 116–17, 129, 227, 228, 257, 282, 298, 318, 319, 435, 438
Taintor, Ada, 10, 194
Tarbell, Edmund, 333
Tariffs. See also Protectionism
aluminum, 52
Grover Cleveland on, 28
Coolidge on, 8, 11, 130, 191–93, 378
Winthrop Murray Crane on, 75, 82
Democratic Party on, 45
Warren Harding on, 209
Benjamin Harrison on, 39–41
Dwight Morrow on, 212
Theodore Roosevelt on, 112–13
stock market crash and, 440–41
Woodrow Wilson on, 113
on wool, 27–28
Taxation: The People’s Business (book), 276–77, 330
Tax bill, Coolidge administration, 288–92, 337–40
Taxes
on automobiles, 417
on colleges, 103–4
in Coolidge administration, 264–67, 278, 284–85, 288–92, 310–11, 313–16, 321, 337–40, 394–95
Coolidge’s father on, 23
in Harding administration, 222, 236–37, 245–46
liquor, 97–98
national income tax (see Income tax, national)
as presidential campaign issue, 190–91, 193
Shays’s rebellion against, 2
Tax revenues, Coolidge administration, 301, 320, 330–31
Taylor, Warren, 27
Teapot Dome scandal, 239–40, 269, 281–82, 295–96, 305, 316, 321, 391
Telegram, Boston Police strike and, 170–72, 174
Telephone technology, 210, 250–51, 338
Telephone workers
Boston Police strike and, 157, 169
strike by, 154–55
Temperance issues, 64, 106
Temple University, 91
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, 102
Tennis, 260, 296
Theater industry, 98
Third-party presidential campaign, 297–98, 304–5
Thriftiness, Coolidge’s, 5, 206
Tilden, Bill, 260
Timilty, James, 131, 167
Tin Lizzie, 119
Todd, Mabel, 63, 67
Tornados, 357
Tourism, 372–73
Trautman, William, 114
Treadway, Allen Towner, 129–30, 263
Treasury Department, 395. See also Mellon, Andrew
Treaty, peace. See Peace treaty
Treaty of Versailles, 186, 221
Trolleys, 95, 118–20. See also Railroads
Trout fishing, 373
Truman, Harry, 175, 234
Trumbull, Florence, 355, 425–26, 437
Trumbull, Jean, 355
Trumbull, John, 326, 350, 437
Trumbull, Maude, 451
Trust busting. See Antitrust legislation
Turner, Alfred, 37
Two Percent Club, 331, 350
Tyler, John, 50
Tyler, William, 39
Underwood, Oscar, 228
Underwood Tariff, 142
Unemployment, 6, 42–43, 46, 228, 419
Union Pacific Railroad, 100–101, 103, 105–6
Unions, labor. See Labor issues
United Copper Company, 102
United Mine Workers, 77–78, 153, 241
United Mine Workers v. Coronado Coal, 241
Untermyer, Samuel, 118, 129
U.S. Post Office, 154–55
U.S. Senate. See Senate, U. S.
U.S. Steel, 102, 177
USS Texas, 406
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 203, 383, 385, 415
Vermont
alienation of, 387–88
Carlos Coolidge as governor of, 17
Coolidge’s reconciliation with, 428–31
floods in, 398–403
Plymouth (see Plymouth, Vermont)
Vermont Maple Products Cooperative Exchange, 348
Vermont Marble Company, 405
Veterans Bureau, 231, 233, 244–45, 255, 262, 268–69
Veterans’ issues
in Coolidge administration, 255, 268, 275, 285–86, 290, 321
in Harding administration, 230–31, 233–34, 236–37, 242–43
Vetoes
Grover Cleveland’s, 40
Coolidge’s, 5, 10, 286–87, 348, 354, 417
Warren Harding’s, 242–43
Vice-presidency, Coolidge’s, 216–53. See also Harding administration
Amherst College issues during, 240–41, 247–49
campaign for, 202–5
Chicago Republican Convention and nomination for, 198–202
Grace Coolidge’s charity during, 231–32
education about Senate protocols for, 223, 228–29
election to, 205–9
error in Senate during, 228
first cabinet meeting of, 221–23
frustration with Harding during, 229–31, 236–37, 244–45
Harding’s death during, 251–53
initial rejection of, 187
personal life during, 220–25, 231–32, 237, 246–47, 250–51
preparations for, 209–14
presidential candidacy before (see Presidential candidacy, Coolidge’s)
Senate rejection of donation of residence for, 244
service as ideal during, 234, 236, 252
silence as liability for, 221, 224, 228, 238
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 180, 248
Vogel, Harry, 224–25
Volstead Act, 182
Von Clausewitz, Carl, 418
Wages
Coolidge administration and, 6
Henry Ford and, 122
raising, to preempt strikes, 176–77, 262
reduction of, 46–47, 114–15
Walker, Charlotta, 430
Wallace, Henry, 249, 258, 306, 317
Wall Street Journal, The (newspaper), 46, 102–3
Walsh, Thomas, 269, 295, 300, 431
Walter Reed Hospital, 298–300
War, costs of, 143, 147–49, 390–91
Ward, Dell, 37
Warren, Charles Beecher, 328
War Risk Bureau, 231
Washington, George, 7, 21, 49, 370
