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Dies Suddenly
At His Home in
Massachusetts

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clamored for legislation and the pas.
sage of q measure which Mr.. Cool.
idge felt he could not support. THAI
was the original .1cNary- Hanger
bill. containing the famous and much
discussed equalization fee provision.
Urging the development Of cooper.
alive marketing organizations as the
best solution for the depression, Mr.
Coolidge declared he must oppose
any form Of price fixing, either d.
rect or indirect, and called for the
measures defeat. It was passed twice
by congress and on each occasion
it received a presidential veto. With
the second veto the president sent
to congress q scathing message in
which he termed the measure Eco
nomic folly"
The Coolidge administration was
characterized by peaceful relations
with the rest of the world and at
tempts by the president to make that
peace lasting one. Early in 1927
he asked the principal naval powers
to meet for a discussion Of the limi-
tation of auxiliary vessels of war
to supplant the Washington treaty OF
1921 which applied only to capital
ships. Japan and Great Britain &C.
cepted and representatives Of the three
nations gathered at Geneva.
U. S.-England Deadlocked
It has been said that the confer
ence was not preceded by a sufficient
amount of preliminary consideration
of technical methods of disarmament
but at any rate, irreconcilable diff
ferences OF opinion arising from the
widely varied needs of the United
States and England caused the con-
ference to end in a deadlock that
continued to the end Of the Coolidge
administration.
Mr.. Coolidge also sought to pre-
serve peace through the Kellogg null
tilateral treaty for the Remuneration
of war, which he declared the most
important subject to be discussed by
the senate during his time in the
White House. In spite of determined
opposition from q group Of senators
who regarded the act as an 'en-
tangling alliance" and one destined
to lead eventually to membership in
the League Of Nations, the pact was
formally ratified by an overwhelming
vote.
The president also was Of the opin-
ion that peace could be preserved
through the maintenance of q strong
national defense and he was q con-
s:stent advocate Of large, but non
competitive navy. In the last year
of his administration he vigorously
endorsed q measure authorizing the
construction of Is new 10,O0O-ton
cruisers and a 16,00O-to aircraft car
rier. Although the bill encountered
stern opposition 1t finally was ap-
proved by Congress.
Another major Coolidge policy was
that of reduction Of the high tax
schedules that came with the war.
Three cuts were effected during his
administration, which relieved thou
sands Of citizens Of the burden of a
federal levy, in addition to sharply
decreasing the amounts paid into the
government by the large corporations
and big business generally.
Long before he retired from office,
Mr.. Coolidge received numerous Of
fers to make professional and bust
ness connections at the expiration OF
his term, but consistently declined
to entertain any Of them. After he
returned to Northampton he engaged
in literary work temporarily. writing
for magazines the story of his ad-
and an autobiography
About two months after leaving the
White House he made his first bust
ness connection when he accepted
election as a member of the board
Of directors Of the New York Life
Insurance company. He was chosen
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Myron T. Herrick, American
ambassador to France.
Calvin Coolidge was born on INDIE
pendence Day, July 4, 1872, In Ply
mouth. a country village in the Ver-
mont hills. the SON of John c. and
Victoria Moor Coolidge. He was des-
cended from John and Mary Cool
idge. who had settled in WATERFOWL
Mass. about 1880, and his ancestry
ran through a long line Of farmers
who lived in Massachusetts until his
great-great grandfather moved into
Vermont. His father was the village
storekeeper as well as farmer. and
SO the son had a double training un-
der his fathers care, blowing and
digging in the fields and selling and
figuring behind the counter. Here
were developed in him the industry
frugality and self-renance which
shaped the course Of his life. His
mother died when he was Is and -four
years later he lost his only sister
but a warm bond Of sympathy de-
veloped between him and his step.
mother.
Between Chores on the farm ant
in the store, the future president at.
tended the ungraded school at Ply
mouth, a single room with a woot
stove. Afterward he attended thu
Black River Academy at Ludlow allt
the academy at st. Johnsburg befor'
going to Amherst College. He was .
keen student, but only in modes
way did he enter into the activitie
of college life.
Won Prize In College
During his senior year, In opel
competition with students Of al
American colleges, he won the frs
prize, a gold medal, for the best es
say on the causes Of the Revolution
airy War. He was graduated in l89!
with the degree Of A. B., and at tn
commencement was Grove Oratol
Had he had money enough to
through law school that fact Nigh
have changed his whole career. A
it was he moved across the Connect
cut river to the nearby town Of North
ampton, Mass, and found . positio
in the law office Of Hammond an
Field. Within 20 months he was ad
mitted to the bar and began practic
Mr.. Coolidge never had time I
prove to the world whether he woul
have made q great lawyer for he We
drawn almost Immediately into pol
tics and with few intervals thu
thereafter was his life work.
On October 1, 1905, Mr.. Coolide
married Miss Grace A. 0oodhue,