Jennifer Coolidge

President Calvin Coolidge vetoed the bill, but then Congress overrode his veto. The bonus was supposed to be paid once the veteran has passed away, earning the name “The Tombstone Bonus.” But then unexpected happened, The Great Depression of 1929. The stock market crashed, 20% were unemployed, and many were left homeless, starving, and hopeless. In June 1932, 43,000 World War I veterans, many whom were unemployed and homeless, came together in Washington D.C.. The World War I veterans demanded to

While drafting out my essay on the values President Coolidge and I share, I began to wonder what people thought of when they heard ‘Calvin Coolidge’. I asked many acquaintances and the results shocked me. Majority of those that I spoke with about President Coolidge did not know much about him. They felt as though he was not a good or popular president because they had not heard much about him during school, unlike other presidents such as President Lincoln and President Washington. The only thing

World War I was often referred to as "The Great War". It began in 1914 and ended in 1918. America witnessed much devastation in this time period. In these four years alone nearly 9 million people died and millions more were maimed, crippled, grief stricken, or psychologically scarred, World War I is considered by many historians, the first man-made catastrophe of the twentieth century.There are many things that contributed to the war these causes were militarism, alliances, imperialism, and na's

The 1920 presidential election proved to be memorable as well as historically significant for a number of reasons. This time period is surrounded by important events in American history. It falls directly after World War I, starts the roaring twenties, and leads the United States into the Great Depression. Warren G. Harding was elected president over all other candidates, with promises of life going back to normal conditions. At this point in time, American citizens were desperate for one thing:

When World War I ended on November 11, 1918, President Warren G. Harding proposed “a return to normalcy”. This promised a return of the United States prewar mentality, without the thought of war contaminating the minds of the American people. With this in mind, the 1920s began- but Americans in the 1930s witnessed dramatic changes in their lives from the 1920s. The 1920s was a period of prosperity and economic success, while the 1930s was a time of economic downfall. The economy fluctuated between

gun. "Sam Gompers, the old union man, the wise man, the one who has been to Paris with the president," Shlaes said. "So, you want to imagine someone very respected nationally asks Coolidge to please negotiate." But Coolidge would not be dissuaded and "Cranky Cal" told Gompers as much in a now famous telegram. Coolidge had deliberated at length on the matter, and had come to a steadfast conclusion, which he expressed in a single, cutting sentence.( https://news.wgbh.org/post/boston-police-strike-impacted-labor-generations)

Black educators began to increase their involvement in political culture in Haiti through advocacy and education. American educators R.R. Moton and W.T.B Williams of the Tuskegee Institute sought more black involvement in U.S.-Haitian relations. Moton served as Booker T. Washington’s successor at the Tuskegee Institute. He felt a duty to continue Washington’s vision of industrial education for blacks and sought to extend the Tuskegee model into Haiti. He urged President Harding to include blacks

public life as a student journalist, Charles pursued, more quietly but just as intrepidly, the study of politics. His senior thesis, a precocious work of political biography, became the starting point for the book (his first) you are now reading. Why Coolidge Matters marks the appearance of a major new conservative talent - and the reappearance of a major old one. We

NFL Protests: Counterproductive Free Speech Arguably, when it comes to personal freedoms, Americans have the most as compared to other industrialized nations. In the United States, (US) its citizens are guaranteed unalienable rights as put down in The Constitution via its amendments. More than one might realize, Americans often take these freedoms for granted – only asserting them when someone else brings them to mind. Such is the case now playing out in professional football stadiums across the

until the United States entered the war. President Wilson appointed him head of Food Administration, then the American Relief Administration. In 1920 he began to serve as the Commerce Secretary under President Harding and the continued with President Coolidge. When he became the Republican Presidential Nominee in 1928 Herbert Hoover stated, "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land”. A great statement, however months later the stock market