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Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls. The shy Vermonter, nicknamed "Silent Cal," has long been dismissed as quiet and passive. History has remembered the decade in which he served as a frivolous, extravagant period predating the Great Depression. No
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Bei VIKTOR MEYER trat 1881 ein junger Amerikaner als Auditor ein, der kurz vorher in Heidelberg bei ROBERT BUNSEN summa c2cm l a d e doktoriert hatte und sich in Ziirich nun auch in organischer Chemie vervollkommnen wollte. Er stammte aus einer bekannten Seemannsfamilie ; sein Grossvater, Admiral PE