Name: Message to the Senate Returning Without Approval S.4808— The McNary- Haugen Farm Relief Bill Date: February 25, 1927 Location: Washington, DC Context: Coolidge explains to the Senate his rationality for vetoing a bill to relieve farms of financial burden To the Senate: The conditions which Senate Bill 4808 is designed to remedy have been, […]
Date: January 22, 1924 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I had a conference yesterday with members of the House Committee on Agriculture. That was particularly in connection with that portion of my message to the Congress on agriculture which is as follows: “Diversification is necessary. Those farmers who raise their living on their […]
Date: November 4, 1927 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) There haven’t been any decisions made about appointments. The Attorney General has not consulted with me relative to the oil trial. Senator Quezon and Senator Osmena – he is a member of the Senate – called on me yesterday with the Secretary of War […]
Date: July 15, 1927 Location: Rapid City, SD I was very much interested this morning to have a visit from a delegation of the National Woman’s Party. They are engaged in working for the Lucretia Mott amendment to the Federal Constitution providing a larger equality as I understand it between women and men than they […]
Date: August 12, 1927 Location: Rapid City, SD It would be my opinion that the newsreels of the various agencies do perform a very important function in keeping the American people informed about current events. It states here that half the population of the. United States see the reels weekly. We see quite a number […]