ABSTRACT
The year 1925 was the emotional as well as chronological dead centre of the decade. Calvin Coolidge, having won the office in his own name, was fully accepted in his position as President. His importance was anecdotal, as the office was. Important things happened beyond the quiet centre of nominal power in Washington. The new hobby of radio listening encouraged the tendency, but the set of mind was a new thing, a feeling that one's country and oneself were exempt from unpleasant consequences. What happened to other peoples and other individuals, mostly other kinds of countries and individuals. The migration to Florida, the leap into air mail service, many important new things seemed to accomplish them dumbly. The great happenings of the year were large-scaled movements, not isolated events. Yet a great contradiction existed during the year when nothing happened.
