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...Christmas Day in 1921, I had a telephone call from Mrs. Carolyn Votaw, the President's sister, who was at the White House: 'Come on over,' she said, 'Wernie wants to talk to you.' She always called the Pres ident 'Wernie.' I went over and found the President sitting all alone in his office and evidently very depressed. He said, 'Merry Christmas,' reached into a right-hand drawer of his desk, pulled out a plug of Piper Heidsieck and took a chew. He got up and looked out on the White House garden and said: 'Help yourself to a cigaret...
...possibilities of new political alignment with Mr. Coolidge as Pres- ident are extremely various. With one sweep the jokester, Fate, took all the pieces off one side of the political chessboard; then put them back in new arrangement...
Whatever may be the advantages of one situation over the other, it seems obvious that the problems of education in England are approximately the same as those faced in the United States. H. A. L. Fisher, Pres- ident of the English Board of Education during the War, contributes to the current Yale Review an account of his incumbency which might well have been written by an American State head of schools during the same period. The manner would be different and the names would change, but the substantial facts would be much the same...