Coolidge (94 page)

Liberty, essay on, 55–56, 66–67

Lieutenant governor’s office, Massachusetts, 135–45

Life insurance, 230–31, 445

Limekiln lot, 1–2, 4, 10–11, 13, 21, 66, 301, 332, 348, 351, 423, 443–44, 456

Lincoln, Abraham, 7, 109, 128–29, 140, 149–50, 198, 199, 211, 225, 255, 256, 257, 260, 264, 270, 273, 287, 290, 300, 302, 307, 311, 315, 316, 336, 339, 347, 352, 353, 370, 380, 384, 392, 418, 439

Lincoln Day Speech, 198

Lincoln Highway Tour, 307–9

Lind, Jenny, 62

Lindbergh, Charles (aviator), 112, 346, 356, 362–63, 364, 365–69, 375, 377, 380, 383, 404, 421, 437, 449–50

Lindbergh, Charles August (congressman), 112, 242, 362, 365

Lindbergh, Evangeline, 363, 365–66

Lippmann, Walter, 248, 304

Liquor issues, 97–98, 106–9

Litchfield, P. W., 341

Lium, Rolf, 373, 383

Lloyd George, David, 267

Lochner, Joseph, 84

Lochner v. New York
, 84

Lodge, Henry Cabot (senator), 82, 96, 127, 133, 144, 153, 175, 189, 195, 198, 199, 200, 202, 208, 210, 214, 223, 228, 229, 242, 263, 273, 287, 291, 346

Cleveland Republican Convention and, 293

comments by, on Democratic Party, 94

on Coolidge’s handling of police strike, 169, 184

death of, 319

disaffection of, for Coolidge, 141, 142, 198–99, 245, 305

illness of, 317

meeting of, with Coolidge about presidential nomination, 186–87

midterm elections and, 242

opposition of, to League of Nations, 149

reaction of, to Harding’s death and Coolidge’s presidency, 251

as Republican Senate leader, 223, 228–29

World War I and, 127

Lodge, Henry Cabot (journalist), 366, 421

Long, Henry Follansbee, 155, 177, 455

Long, Richard, 146, 180–83

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 24, 92, 307

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 6, 83, 227, 228–29, 233, 244, 247, 260, 263, 271, 274, 276, 316, 322, 324, 365

Longworth, Nicholas, 228, 263, 274, 278, 281, 287, 288, 319, 322, 323, 324, 330, 379

Longworth, Paulina, 324

Looker, Earle, 450

Looting, Boston Police strike and, 157–58, 160–63

Lord, Herbert Mayhew, 9, 256, 264, 267, 276, 280, 282, 286, 288, 289, 290, 293, 296, 297, 310, 312, 314, 317, 318, 323, 330, 331–32, 334, 339, 345, 348, 349, 350, 351, 357, 363, 367, 386, 390–91, 397, 419, 424, 434, 443, 465

budget meetings with, 427–28

as Coolidge administration budget director, 254–55, 261–63, 277

death of, 449

Low, Maurice, 133

Lowden, Frank, 181, 196–97, 199, 200, 245, 294, 382

Lowry, Edward, 224, 228

Loyalty, Coolidge’s, 94

Lucey, James, 42, 64, 72, 84, 90, 104, 264, 293, 313, 444, 455

Ludlow high school.
See
Black River Academy

Lusitania
ship, sinking of, 134

Lynds, Walter, 332, 343, 348, 456

Lyons, Louis, 400

McAdoo, William, 143–44, 186, 217, 295, 297, 304, 305

McCall, Samuel, 100, 101, 110, 135, 137–38, 140, 142, 155, 204

McCamant, Wallace, 194, 201, 299, 329

McClintock, William S., 85

McClure’s
articles, 441–49

McCormick, Medill, 201, 233

McCumber, Porter, 231

McFadden-Pepper bill, 354

Machado, Gerardo, 352, 380, 406–7

McInerney, Joe, 252

McInnes, John, 154, 157, 160, 162, 169, 171, 190

McKim, Mead & White Mansion, 355

McKinley, William, 68–69, 71, 76, 77, 83, 256, 257

Mack Trucks, 342

McLean, Edward, 215, 217–18, 219, 257–58, 259, 261, 316

McLean, Evalyn, 217–18, 223–24, 232, 316, 349

McManama, John, 338

McNary, Charles, 305–6, 351

McNary-Haugen farm bill, 324, 351, 353–54, 378, 381

Madden, Barnaby, 262, 287

Mammoth Oil Co., 240

Manual for the Use of the General Court
, 97

Man Who Knew Coolidge, The
(book), 416

Maple sugar business, 10–11, 13, 21

Marble issue, 126

Marriage.
See
Coolidge, Grace Anna Goodhue (wife)

Marsh, Edward Baxter, 67

Marshall, Thomas, 181–82, 185, 202–3, 213, 305

Massachusetts.
See also
Northampton, Massachusetts

Boston Police strike in (
see
Boston Police strike)

Coolidge as governor of (
see
Governor of Massachusetts, Coolidge as)

Coolidge as lieutenant governor of, 135–45

Coolidge as Senate president for, 121–24, 126–27, 129–35

Coolidge as state representative for, 94–105

Coolidge as state senator for, 111–12, 114–21

Coolidge family in, 18–19

floods in, 398–99

militia of, 136

Republican primary in, 196

state budget of, after World War I, 148

state government reorganization in, 178–80, 184–85

state income tax in, 140–41

Massachusetts State Guard, 158–62, 165–68

Mayflower
yacht, 219, 249, 258, 273–74, 276, 283, 290, 295, 324, 334, 351–52, 366, 402, 434

Maynard, Mabel, 68

Maynard, Robert, 156

Mayor of Northampton, Coolidge as, 106–11

Meatpacking industry, 94–95

Meiklejohn, Alexander, 36, 114, 133–35, 147, 241, 247–49, 304–5

Mellen, Charles, 99, 101, 102, 117

Mellon, Ailsa, 264, 276, 347

Mellon, Andrew

book by, on taxation, 276–77, 287, 330, 364

conflict between James Couzens and, 278–79, 280, 284–85, 315–16, 328

as Coolidge’s Treasury secretary, 256, 258, 260, 261, 262, 270, 275, 276, 277, 280, 286, 287, 291, 292, 294, 297, 310, 317, 318, 320, 321, 325, 328, 330, 337, 344, 347, 352, 353, 361, 362, 365, 366, 367, 375, 391, 392, 394, 395, 398, 412, 421, 427, 432, 440

as Harding’s Treasury secretary, 210–11, 215, 221–22, 227, 234, 236, 239, 245, 246, 251

as Hoover’s Treasury secretary, 438, 448

Johnstown Flood and, 63–64

on loss of personnel at Treasury Department, 395

Mellon Plan of scientific taxation by, 264–67, 271, 272, 273, 278, 279, 281, 283, 284, 288, 289, 290, 291, 302, 303, 310–11, 312, 315, 320, 321, 330–31, 337, 338, 342, 343, 346, 349, 350, 363, 364, 386, 394

at signing of Mellon Plan tax bill, 339–40

Mellon, Thomas, 52, 84

Mellon Plan, 264–67, 272, 302–3, 339–40

Mencken, H. L., 199

Mentally ill, homes for, 142

Mentors, Coolidge’s, 49–54

Mercersburg Academy, 232, 270, 282, 293, 345

Merrill, Charles, 425, 438

Metropolitan Police, 156, 161

Mexico, 377–78, 390–92, 404, 420

Microphones, 214, 318, 327

Midterm elections, Harding administration and, 242

Minimum wage issues, 114

Ministers, approval of Coolidge by, 173–74

Mississippi Flood Committee, 360

Mississippi River floods, 357–60, 403–4

Mitchell, William, 332, 335

Moncado, Hilario, 404

Moore, Herbert, 26, 308

Moore, John Bassett, 416

Moore, Zephaniah Swift, 33

Morgan, Jack, 118

Morgan, J. P., 77, 99–102, 117–18

Morrill, Justin, 45

Morrow, Anne, 398, 437, 449–50

Morrow, Betty, 141, 377

Morrow, Dwight, 10, 137, 138, 141, 146, 174, 177, 202, 211, 212, 225, 230, 247, 248, 281, 282, 284, 295, 298, 302, 319, 325, 326, 384, 388, 415, 427, 441, 445, 450

as Ambassador to Mexico, 377–78, 392, 404, 420

at Amherst College, 34–35, 38, 42, 48, 54, 56, 57–59, 185, 304, 349

at Amherst College reunion, 109

anarchist bombing and, 207

on board reviewing defense and aviation, 335, 350-51

at Chicago Republican Convention, 200

as clerk at law firm, 60–61, 66, 67

at Columbia Law School, 69

on Coolidge’s goodness, 179

death of, 449

at dinner honoring Coolidge, 134–35

Charles Edward Garman and, 10, 51, 112

on honorary degree for Coolidge, 141

at J. P. Morgan company, 120, 122, 127, 147, 437

marriage of, to Elizabeth Cutter, 78

marriage of daughter Anne to Charles Lindbergh, 437

meeting of, with Charles Lindbergh, 363

at Pan-American Conference, 407

peace treaty and, 415, 431

reaction of, to Harding’s death and Coolidge’s presidency, 251

on Republican Party, 177

on Theodore Roosevelt, 113

as senator, 443–44

on tariffs, 191–92

Morse, Anson, 41, 49–50, 444

Mortgages, 86, 91

Moses, George, 410

Mother.
See
Coolidge, Victoria Josephine Moor (mother)

Mount Rushmore, 347, 352–53, 367–68, 370, 375–76, 383–84, 386, 427, 438–40

Mount Vernon
ship, 144, 146, 150, 197, 261, 391.
See also Kronprinzessin Cecilie
ship

Multilateral peace treaty.
See
Peace treaty

Municipal bonds, nontaxable, 245–46, 266–67

Muscle Shoals, 239–40, 281, 292, 343–44, 353, 398, 412, 417, 444, 454

Mussolini, Benito, 8, 433

Myers, Henry, 159

Name change, Coolidge’s, 69

National debt

after World War I, 3–4, 147–48

Congressional hearings on, 212

Coolidge administration budget and, 5–6, 255, 419

as presidential campaign issue, 193

National Gallery, 347

National Tax Reduction Week, 276

National Women’s Republican Club, 237

Native Americans, 403, 417

Natural resources, Harding administration on, 226

Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 3.
See
Teapot Dome scandal

New, Harry, 256

New England floods, 398–403

Newlin, William Jesse, 99, 333

Newton, Walter, 274

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 72, 99–103, 117–20, 122, 429

New York Central Railroad, 76, 118

New York City policemen and firemen, 161

New York Life Insurance Company, 436, 445

Nicaragua, 348, 377, 392, 404, 407

Nineteenth Amendment, 185

Nixon, Richard, 10

Nobel Prize, Sinclair Lewis’s, 446

Nonotuck Savings Bank, 72, 105–6

Norbeck, Peter, 274, 353, 372, 378

Normalcy

Coolidge administration, 255–59, 291, 310, 311, 362, 391, 420, 453

and Harding, 195–96, 202–4, 208, 244, 246

Norris, George, 228, 320, 328–29, 338, 344, 412, 454

Northern Securities Company, 77

Northampton, Massachusetts.
See also
Massachusetts

Coolidge as City Solicitor General for, 75–76

Coolidge as mayor of, 106–11

Coolidge on city council of, 71–72, 74–75

Coolidge’s courtship of, and marriage to Grace Goodhue in, 78–87

Coolidge’s interest in politics in, 76–78

Coolidge’s law practice in, 69–71 (
see also
Law practice, Coolidge’s)

Coolidge’s legal education at Hammond and Field law firm in, 61–69

Coolidge’s post-presidency life in, 434–56

Coolidge’s school committee loss in, 86, 88, 90

Norwood Hotel, 90–91

Notary Public position, 101

Nungesser, Charles, 356, 361–62

Obregón, Álvaro, 420

Obscurity, Coolidge’s, 7, 12

Oil concessions, Harding administration, 239–40

Oil reserves, 222–23, 226.
See also
Teapot Dome scandal

Oldroyd, Osborn, 307, 339, 347

Olds, George, 41, 54, 304–5

Olds, Robert, 416

O’Meara, Stephen, 151

One Percent Club, 331

Organized labor.
See
Labor issues

Orteig, Raymond, 194, 344–45, 362

Orteig Prize, 194, 344, 351, 356, 361–62, 365–66

Oudens, Amherst College, 36–37, 41

Palace Car Company strike, 46–47

Palmer, A. Mitchell, 207

Panama, 218–19

Panama Canal, 100–101, 106, 221–22

Pan-American Conference, 380, 392, 406–7, 412

Parents.
See
Coolidge, John “Colonel” (father); Coolidge, Victoria Josephine Moor (mother)

Parker, Alton Brooks, 82–83

Parkhurst, Charles, 49

Partridge, Frank, 405

Party platforms, Republican Party, 127–30, 273, 290

Patents, 6

Patronage jobs, Harding administration, 205, 210–11, 219, 231, 234, 236, 241, 246

Peabody, Francis, 162–63

Peace treaty, 360–61, 388, 394, 403, 408–12, 417, 421–23, 432–33.
See also
Foreign policy issues, Coolidge administration

Peay, Austin, 358

Peckham, Rufus, 84

“Peeping Tom” Law, 288

People’s Institute, 249

Pepper, George, 202

Perseverance, Coolidge’s, 4–5, 9

Pershing, John, 144, 186, 218, 227, 335, 350

Personal finance, Coolidge’s

at Amherst College, 38, 44, 47–48

Coolidge family and, 17

as governor of Massachusetts, 197

investments, 72, 105, 342

as Massachusetts state representative, 104

in Northampton, 66, 69–72

in Northampton after marriage, 90–92

in post-presidency life, 437–38, 440–41, 446, 449

thriftiness in, 5

during vice-presidency, 224–25

in White House, 270–71, 410

Personal life, Coolidge’s

after presidency, 434–37

at Amherst College, 41–42, 48–49, 57

as lieutenant governor, 139–40

during presidency, 259–61, 269–70, 274–77, 282–83, 294–95, 312–13, 316–17, 332–34, 419–21, 425–26, 428–31

as state representative, 96–99

during vice-presidency, 216–21, 223–25, 231–32, 246–47, 250–51

while reading law in Northampton, 64, 68

with wife in Northampton, 90–92

Peters, Andrew, 156–57, 159–60, 164–65, 176

Peterson, Howdy, 383

Pfeiffer, Alexandra Carlisle, 200

Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, 77

Phillippine Independence Commission, 262

Philpott, A. J., 152

Photography, aerial, 341, 358