Mr. Coolidge's Week

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: Brigadier General Charles E. Sawyer, White House physician since his appointment by President Harding, resigned this post in order to return to his home in Marion and take charge of the active work of building the Harding Memorial. Some $900,000 has been raised for this purpose. P: President Coolidge appointed Major James F. Coupal as White House physician to succeed General Sawyer. Major Coupal is a Massachusetts man who was appointed as physician to the Vice President when Mr. Coolidge first went to Washington. Although General Sawyer continued as White House physician after Mr. Coolidge's inauguration, Major Coupal remained his personal physician. Major Coupal, by his new assignment, was relieved of his post as Curator of the Army Medical Museum. P: Max Sasanoff, until some months ago, was an inmate of the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta. Now he is in Washington to paint a portrait of President Coolidge. Sasanoff, a Russo-Italian by birth, early attained some reputation as a concert singer. He came to this country, fell in with counterfeiters, was apprehended, convicted, sentenced to Atlanta for three years. While in Atlanta, he attracted attention by painting in the penitentiary chapel a remarkable picture of Christ ministering to the poor. It was claimed that the counterfeiters had forced him to work for them under threat of death. President Harding pardoned him. It is possible that in Heaven, some day, Sasanoff may be welcomed by Benvenuto Cellini. P: Farewell calls--farewell for the Summer--were paid to the President by Ambassador Jusserand of France, and Senators McKinley, Spencer, Sterling, Cameron. P: The Washington baseball team, returning home with a string of nine straight victories, opened a double-header with Philadelphia before 30,000 fans. A few minutes after the first game began, Mr. Coolidge, with his wife and two sons, entered the Presidential box. It was terribly hot, but the Coolidges stayed to the end, standing in the lucky seventh and seeing the "Senators" win 5-0 and lose 0-1.

P:The Democratic Convention caused such a grave disturbance at a Cabinet meeting that the President was obliged to have the radio loudspeaker turned off. The din was too great to allow Secretarial deliberation.

P: "I am for economy. After that I am for more economy." In proposing to the Government's Business Organization (Budget) that the nation be run on $3,000,000,000 in 1925, Mr. Coolidge thus keynoted, indirectly, his campaign for reelection. Especially did he assail the national payroll, extravagance in government printing.

P:On the last day of June the President proclaimed the 1924-1925 quotas provided in the new immigration bill. That midnight the bill was law.