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...Some Coolidge letters of the week: to National Commander Frank J. Irwin.of "Forget-me-not Day" (Nov. 8), endorsing that movement's re- membrance of and aid for, disabled U.S. soldiers; to Harry C. Meek, of the Uptown Lions' Club of Chicago, endorsing the observance of the third Sunday in October as Father's Day, an idea Mr. Meek originated four years ago; to Henry Ford, acknowledging Mr. Ford's withdrawal of an offer to lease Government property at Muscle Shoals, Tenn. (see Page 5) ; to Commander Marion Eppley, National Chairman of the Navy League, approving...
...almost perfect image of the Manhattan gumchewers' sheetlet, the Daily News. Their outward semblances varied only to the discerning eye. The front and back pages were completely wrapped in pictures. Within, tiny stories, mostly of the human-interest-scandal-crime variety, lay side by side, like meek sardines, while over all and through all, garnishing and epitomizing, were scattered photographs, comic strips, drawings. The headlines were trenchant: "No Rabbits," "She Must Pay," "Marry Me," "Hero Sued." It happened that the first issue of the Mirror coincided with the first day of the Democratic Convention. The politics of the Convention...
Washington does not like trusts arid does not propose to let them operate unassailed. The eagle eye of the Federal authorities ranges high and low; it fears not the mighty in their seat nor does it overlook the humble and meek...
...amazingly fortunate in securing Donald Meek as the medium of his mordant observations. Mr. Meek looks the part; he expands its considerable qualities to the precise dimensions of brilliance by the extraordinary shrewdness of his playing...
...first college appointments and new surroundings, a large proportion of Freshmen have already seen advisers, it is due to the work of the Committee, which has changed the old order of things; gone are the days when the lordly Senior Adviser emerged from his den to visit his meek advisees as the snow began...