POLITICAL NOTES: Coolidge v. Smith

Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Emanuel Smith last week grappled in Massachusetts. They came out of retirement as a sort of grand finale to the Congressional campaign. Because no other private citizens in the land can match the political prestige of the onetime Republican President or of the onetime Democratic presidential nominee, their words went far & wide across the nation. Characteristically, Citizen Coolidge chose the hushed solitude of a radio broadcasting studio at Springfield to appeal for the election of his old friend, William Morgan Butler, Republican nominee for the Senate. Equally...

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