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Address at the Eleventh Regular Meeting of the Business Organization of the Government

February 18, 2021

Title: Address at the Eleventh Regular Meeting of the Business Organization on the Government Date: June 21, 1926 Location: Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) The more these business meetings of the United States Government increase in number the more I am impressed with their surpassing importance. They are held for the purpose of discussing […]

Calvin Coolidge Says, September 20, 1930

February 17, 2021

Date: September 20, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA Summary: Coolidge reflects on the state of the American economy. (Original document available here) It is no new thing to have temporary periods of economic readjustment to a new basis of production costs. While they are in progress business actively declines. When they have been completed, we have always […]

Calvin Coolidge Says, October 27, 1930

February 1, 2021

Date: October 27, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) The conditions in many parts of the world ought to have a very sobering effect on the people of the United States. There are dictators in Spain, Poland and Italy. Chronic revolution has devastated China. Russia is prostrate. India is filled with unrest. Australia […]

Calvin Coolidge Says, November 13, 1930

January 26, 2021

Date: November 13, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA Summary: Calvin Coolidge offers his opinion that the Sherman Anti-Trust Law should not be amended. This appears to be a newspaper article that was published in the year following the end of Coolidge’s presidency. (Original document available here) Every little while it is claimed that old economic principles […]

Calvin Coolidge Says, March 30, 1931

January 21, 2021

Date: March 30, 1931 Location: Northampton, MA Summary: Coolidge reflects on the rising interdependence of the global economic market. (Original document available here) The return of Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, to this country where he has been a frequent visitor for the last decade, indicates the interdependence of finance among the nations […]