Tag Archive for "Alaska" | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Proclamation, June 10, 1925

December 3, 2020

Purpose: To adjust the boundaries of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska Date: June 10, 1925 (Original document available here) Whereas, since the issuance of the third proclamation on February 7, 1922, certain lands theretofore occupied for fish cannery purposes have been excluded from the Tongass National Forest, within the Territory of Alaska, by Executive orders […]

Press Conference, May 18, 1926

August 13, 2020

Date: May 18, 1926 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) It is my understanding that Senator Smoot who is the Senate Chairman of the Committee having in charge the hearings on the French debt settlement, and who is also a member of the Commission, and Representative Green, Chairman of the House Committee having in […]

Press Conference, September 24, 1926

July 30, 2020

Date: September 24, 1926 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) THE PRESIDENT: The Attorney General for Ontario, Mr. W. F. Nichol, and the United States District Attorney for Western New York, Mr. Templeton I think, came in this morning, Mr. Templeton coming in to present Mr. Nichol to me. I understood that they had […]

Press Conference, May 29, 1925

June 12, 2020

Date: May 29, 1925 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I have had Frederick C. Delano under consideration for appointment to the vacancy on the District Commission. I don’t know whether he is eligible or not. I thought at first that he was and then I understood he wasn’t; then I understood again that […]

Press Conference, November 20, 1925

June 10, 2020

Date: November 20, 1925 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I don’t recall that anything has come to me relative to the transfer of jurisdiction over the Virgin Islands from the Navy to Porto Rico. Porto Rico of course is under the Insular Bureau of the War Department. I assume that is what this […]