A pro ‑ active Attorney General, Stone argued many of his department's cases in the federal courts and launched an anti ‑ trust investigation of the Aluminum Company of America, controlled by the family of Andrew Mellon, who was Coolidge's Secretary of the Treasury.

Helen Stevens Coolidge's family first acquired the farm in 1729, and from 1914 to 1962 it was her summer home with husband John Gardner Coolidge, diplomat, descendant of Thomas Jefferson, and nephew of Isabella Stewart Gardner.

Coolidge's grandmother Sarah Almeda Brewer had two famous first cousins: Arthur Brown, a United States Senator, and Olympia Brown, a women's suffragist.

Coolidge's financial resources were not unlimited but through force of personality and conviction she managed to raise the status of chamber music in the United States, where the major interest of composers had previously been in orchestral music, from curiosity to a seminal field of composition.

Brookhart had run as a Republican and won the Republican nomination, but angered many within his party by crusading against business interests, demanding the withdrawal of Charles Dawes, President Coolidge's running mate, and by endorsing Progressive Party presidential candidate Robert M. LaFollette.

Coolidge never reconciled with his mother-in-law, who later insisted that Grace had been largely responsible for Coolidge's political success.

The strong economy and Coolidge's popularity helped Republican candidates increase their majority by four, although several interim appointments had worsened their numbers since the 1922 election ; as a result, the party achieved a net gain of only one seat since the previous voting cycle.

Mama always felt that the collection symbolized Mrs. Coolidge's wish for a little girl.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

Coolidge's mother was the daughter of a Plymouth Notch farmer.

Coolidge's chronically ill mother died, perhaps from tuberculosis, when he was twelve years old.

Coolidge's father remarried in 1891, to a schoolteacher, and lived to the age of eighty.

Coolidge's great-great-grandfather, also named John Coolidge, was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War and one of the first selectmen of the town of Plymouth Notch.

Most of Coolidge's ancestors were farmers.

The full history of the subject is described in Harvard professor Julian Lowell Coolidge's Origin of Polar Coordinates.

Calvin Coolidge's father, a notary public, administered the oath to his son after the death of Warren Harding.

This, however, was contested upon Coolidge's return to Washington and his oath was re-administered by Judge Adolph A. Hoehling, Jr. of the District of Columbia Supreme Court.

" His successor, Calvin Coolidge, was so obscure that Major League Baseball sent him free passes that misspelled his name, and a fire marshal failed to recognize him when Coolidge's Washington residence was evacuated.

Calvin Coolidge's 1923 speech was the first to be broadcast on radio.

Coolidge's laconic ways and dry humor were characteristic of stereotypical rural " Yankee humor " at the turn of the 20th century.

* Fleser, Arthur F. " Coolidge's Delivery: Everybody Liked It.

Former Illinois Governor Frank Orren Lowden was nominated as Coolidge's running mate, but he declined the honor, a unique event in 20th century political history.

Calvin Coolidge's father read from The World Almanac when he swore his son into office.

Coolidge's next choice was Idaho Senator William Borah, but he also declined the nomination.

John Coolidge's wife, Carrie, served as postmaster 1903 – 17.

Coolidge's father also founded Plymouth Cheese Factory, which continues to produce artisan cheese today.

While upholding President Calvin Coolidge's pocket veto, the court said that the " determinative question is not whether it is a final adjournment of Congress or an interim adjournment but whether it is one that ' prevents ' the President from returning the bill.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

Lithe and muscular, he had well-molded features, and his light color told of the European ancestors who had been intimate with the slave women of his family.

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

Banks had a family -- a wife, a daughter, and a son.

For every rude word of Mr. Banks's the family had five in apology.

There is little doubt if they had a secret ballot, they would vote for food for their family, in place of ideological purity out on the farm.

Inside, as soon as Mr. Skopas had disclosed -- in a hoarse whisper -- the detective's errand, his family gathered in a huddle, forming a mass of dark flesh on and around a brocaded sofa which stood at one side of a baroque fireplace.

What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

Bobby Joe and two or three of the other boys declared they had never been possum-hunting, and Uncle Bill Farnworth ( from Mama Albright's side of the family ) said he would just get up from there and take them, right then.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

How in the world had he formerly found time to build up a business, raise a family, be on half a dozen boards, work actively on committees and either go out in the evening or plow through the contents of a bulging brief case??

In one cartoon a family is shown outside a theater with the head of the family addressing the doorman: `` Excuse me, but when we came out we found that we had left my daughter's handbag and my wife's behind ''.

the two youngest in our family always had to be brought in and put through tricks for his entertainment.

the child who had once considered it a treat to accompany his parents on picnics and family gatherings now considers it a bore.