Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages.

Calvin Coolidge's Have Faith in Massachusetts; Inscribed by Him

Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages.

COOLIDGE, Calvin.

Item Number: 79003

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919.

Second enlarged edition of this collection of speeches. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To S.D. Green With Regards Calvin Coolidge.” In very good condition.

Have Faith In Massachusetts includes documents, among them a telegram to Samuel Gompers, relating to the 1919 Boston police strike, during which Coolidge “upheld the city police commissioner’s decision to deprive the striking officers of their jobs… [and declared], ‘There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.’ This [event] brought him national attention and overwhelming reelection as governor that fall” (ANB).

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