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...Before eight, one morning, secret service men leapt from the path of an automobile that whizzed up the driveway. Secretary of Commerce Hoover got out; conferred hastily with the President on farm relief; offered plans (which were approved) for extensive Governmental promotion of civil aeronautics under the recent air legislation; whizzed down the driveway, took a train to California, presumably to aid his friend Senator Shortridge, whose renomination Senator Hiram Johnson is opposing...
...Cabinet members had already arrived. At 10:40, the White House guests, with the Dawes children, entered several closed motorcars and were driven away to the Capitol. A dozen cars carrying the Congressional Inaugural Committee, Cabinet members, aids, etc., lined up in the White House driveway. The President and the Vice President emerged from the White House and paused to be photographed. Mrs. Coolidge appeared in a modish ensemble suit of moonstone gray, "joseema" cloth (a sort of cross between duvetyn and kasha), with a gray fox collar. Her hat was likewise gray with a trimming of burnt goose feathers...
...because of that very fact it has on occasion been hinted that he was a U. S. doughboy, a Senegalese rifleman. It has also been stated before that he was a German, but never proved. Suffice it to say that the decomposed body under the stone slabs of the driveway of the Arc de Triomphe is, to the minds of Frenchmen, a Frenchman and a Frenchman who gave his life that other Frenchmen might live in the liberty for which they fought...
There is no time better than the present for stressing this point. As yet no decision has been reached on an appropriate war memorial, the suggestions offered ranging all the way from an Italian Campanile over the Rotunda, to a great Harvard Driveway to the Yard from the river, presumably pushing apart Claverly and Randolph in its eagerness to exhibit the University to the itinerant motorist. While the subject of a war memorial is still fresh in our minds, is it altogether inappropriate to repeat a suggestion already made to the Board of Overseers,--that of a new Quadrangle, which...
Automobiles may be parked on Harvard, Quincy, and Prescott streets. The driveway of the Union may be entered only by the Quincy street entrance...