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...Coolidge's remarks were directed against the thirty-five odd" Hearst papers which have stood back of him as they have no President in more than a quarter of a century. The Hearst lies were directed against the Senators who oppose the Administration's foreign policies. No Presi- dent in many a day has had the almost unshakable support of the Press as that given Mr. Coolidge. F. H. JOHNSON...
...night before. And, having ideas of his own, he refused to "beat the system." Later he took the degree, be came Research Associate of the Cancer Commission, Assistant Dean of Harvard, Assistant Director of the Carnegie Institute's Station for Experimental Evolution at Washington, Captain in aviation, Presi dent of the University of Maine. At 37, a university president for the second time, he shocked Michigan conservatives by publicly advocating birth control, became Director of the American Birth Control League, President of the International Neo-Malthusian League. In spare moments he surprises mice and guinea pigs, studying their heredities...
Representatives Elbert S. Brigham and Ernest W. Gibson of the Presi- dent's native Vermont, to show how Federal aid was needful to rebuild Vermont's washed-out highways...
...Among the duties of the Secretary of the Treasury is that of causing to be struck, as soon as possible after inauguration day, a bronze medal bearing the new Presi'dent's likeness. No effort or money is spared to reproduce the last freckle, pock, line, whisker; the exact crook of nose, areas of baldness, hair part, ear convulsions, etc., for the Presidential medals constitute the official record of what each President looked like while in office. Until about ten years ago, the medals were called "Indian peace medals," hundreds of them being distributed to chieftains...
Married. Phyllis Cleveland, second cousin of the late U. S. Presi- dent Grover Cleveland, leading lady in The Cocoanuts* (with Groucho, Harpo, Chico & Zeppo Marx); to one J. Ainsworth Morgan of San Francisco & New York; in Manhattan...