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...printer and cause him to print a quantity of official-looking tickets for a Hoover or a Smith picnic, or both, at such-and-such amusement resorts on such-and-such days...
...Pending bills (see THE CONGRESS), and what he would do about them if passed in such-and-such forms, kept President Coolidge busily occupied, conferring, suggesting, protesting, making himself felt, making himself clear. The Senate's latest program of tax reduction had his approval; the McNary-Haugen farm marketing bill was probably riding to a veto; the Senate's flood-control bill was dubious and when it passed the House and went to conference, President Coolidge received its proponents again & again. He yielded stubbornly to their insistences and insisted on points of his own. The new week began...
...hands of a woman. U. S. born and bred Mme. Paul Dupuy (née Helen Browne of Manhattan) took charge of the Petit Parisien last year when her husband died. Last week, recovering from an operation, she sat in bed, talked into a telephone, directed her editors to put such-and-such on the front page, to ignore so-and-so. U. S. correspondents called at her Paris apartment and she told them: "I am training my two sons to take over the property when I am too old. My policy as a newspaper publisher is based on the iron...
While waiting for this to happen no gentleman will omit a few modest, customary intimations that the number of birds which he slew last year on such-and-such a moor was really colossal...
...Answer calls made to a subscriber with a given message, such as that he is sick, busy, absent, but may be reached, later, at such-and-such an hour...