Monday, Feb. 18, 1924
Mr. Coolidge's Week
P: The President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the funeral of Woodrow Wilson the services both at Mr. Wilson's home and at the Washington Cathedral.
P: The President opened and addressed a conference of bankers and farmers to obtain relief for the farm region of the Northwest.
P: In a letter to a convention of the National Council of Farmers' Cooeperative Marketing Association, President Coolidge extended assurance of his "hearty sympathy."
P: Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, who have been guests at the White House for several weeks, left Washington for Boston.
P: In one day there called at the White House: 1) Senator Magnus Johnson of Minnesota, to discuss farm matters; 2) Robert Underwood Johnson, former Ambassador to Italy, on a personal matter; 3) Dr. I. Fred Johnson, prominent member of the Lee Highway Association, with his associates; 4) James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with a petition for the release of 54 Negroes of the 24th Infantry in Leavenworth Penitentiary for the Houston Riot of 1917; 5) Henry Lincoln Johnson, Republican National Committeeman from Georgia. Even the President was reported to have found this a case of too much Johnson; he addressed one of the Johnsons on a subject which pertained to another.
P: The Congressional Reception at the White House was cancelled because of Mr. Wilson's death.
P: The President ordered the Department of Justice to investigate charges by Governor McMaster of South Dakota and Governor Bryan of Nebraska that "allied interests of the Standard Oil" had cornered the crude oil supply and were advancing the price of gasoline.
P: A delegation of Boy Scouts called at the White House on the 14th birthday of their organization.
P: For the President's activities in connection with the so-called Oil Scandal.
P: Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge attended Sunday services at the Central Presbyterian Church, where Woodrow Wilson worshiped. The sermon was A Great Man Has Fallen.
P: Travelling to Manhattan, the President made a Lincoln Day address before Republicans of those parts.