The White House Week

THE PRESIDENCY

The White House Week

P: At the annual New Year's reception, President and Mrs. Coolidge received only 3,891 callers, about half as many as have come to the reception in previous years. According to reports, the President and his wife experienced "only natural fatigue," which is attributed to the forbearance of those who stayed away. In order of reception were the Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps (who then hurriedly departed to be guests of Secretary and Mrs. Hughes at an official breakfast at the Pan-American Union Building), the Supreme Court Justices, Judges of the District of Columbia, Senators and Representatives, officers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, officials of Federal Departments. There was an interval of 50 minutes for luncheon, after which patriotic and military societies, and the public, were received. Mrs. Coolidge wore "deep red chiffon brocaded with 'dull blue velvet."

P:The President ordered Brigadier General Lord, Director of the Budget, to investigate whether the Navy and the Shipping Board had any suitable vessels available for capturing rum runners.

P:A Porto Rican delegation called on the President and urged that the Island be permitted to select its own executive officers and judges.

P: R. W. Stewart, Chairman of the Directorate of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, was called into conference with the President concerning "business and political conditions."

P: Koppel Bier, a butcher of Hoboken, N. J., 104 years of age, called at the White House and promised Mr. Coolidge the votes of himself and 146 descendants.

P:Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge attended a charity ball for the Children's Hospital, at the New Willard Hotel, the first event of the kind at which they have been present. On the left of the Presidential box was Secretary Mellon; on the right, Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes. Mrs. Coolidge wore "gold cloth brocaded in a flower pattern of Persian colors."

P:The Coolidges took their weekly cruise aboard the Mayflower. Their guests included several progressives in Congress: Senator and Mrs. Frazier of North Dakota, Representative and Mrs. Dickinson of Iowa, Representative Graham of Illinois. Others of the party were Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Senator McKinley of Illinois, Senator Spencer of Missouri, former Senator and Mrs. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns.