SS President Coolidge motors ranged from a tenth horsepower to the 13,250 horsepower main motors. The ship had refrigerated cargo space. "President Coolidge" was initially designed for 350 first class, 150 "special" or intermediate class passengers with space for 1,260 passengers of all classes and a crew of 300. The ship was launched on 21 February 1931 after Mrs. Calvin C. Coolidge broke a bottle of water that came from a brook on the Coolidge farm in Vermont on the bow. "President Hoover" and "President Coolidge" ran between San Francisco and Manila via Kobe and Shanghai, and some round the World voyages that
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians learn to shed those elements of their personalities which would make them unfit for Heaven. "Coolidge" was a finalist for the 1989 Hugo Award for Best Novella and the 1989 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and was ranked 9th for the Locus Award for Best Novella. Jo Walton has described "Coolidge" as being "terrific" and "memorable and excellent". The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians is a fantasy / weird fiction novella by Bradley Denton. It was first published in "Fantasy and Science Fiction", in June 1988. It republished in Denton's 1994 collection