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President Coolidge’s Appeal to Americans to Relieve Distress in Japanese Earthquake

September 17, 2020

Title: President Coolidge’s Appeal to Americans to Relieve Distress in Japanese Earthquake Date: September 3, 1923 Location: Washington, DC Context: Coolidge appeals to the citizenry of the United States to support efforts to aid earthquake-stricken Japan To the People of the United States: An overwhelming disaster has overtaken the people of the friendly nation of […]

Press Conference, December 20, 1927

August 18, 2020

Date: December 20, 1927 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I haven’t in mind at the present time any particular action relative to the tax reduction bill. It is quite apparent that there was an effort, commendable in itself, to hasten the bill through the House, perhaps without any sufficient appreciation on the part […]

Press Conference, October 4, 1927

August 13, 2020

Date: October 4, 1927 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) There are no appointments to he announced, either in the District Judgeship of Northern California, or Court of Domestic Relations in Hawaii, or in the District Attorneyship at Detroit. I haven’t made any study of the suggestion of Mr. Hurley, formerly of the Shipping […]