Mr. Coolidge's Week

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: The President received two onetime Governors: Henry J. Allen of Kansas, Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. Later, Mr. Allen expressed the fear that Mr. Coolidge's economy talks were creating an unwarranted "buyers' strike," thereby injuring business. Mr. Lowden pointed out that there is still distress on many farms.

P:"By virtue of authority vested in me by act of Congress approved August 1, 1914 . . . ," the President put the ports of Newark and Perth Amboy, N. J., under the authority of the Port of New York, thus eliminating much interstate red-tape.

P:Protests against "anonymous government," arising from the President's refusal to be quoted directly in newspaper interviews, were anonymously ignored. Foreign governments, said a White House "spokesman," disregard all but official communications, are not disturbed by tactless remarks bearing no signature. Anonymity will continue.

P:The President set a new hand- grasp, torso-tug* record: 65 per minute for 16 minutes, total 1,040. P:In the daily line of 700 to 1,000 handshakers were Evangelist "Billy" Sunday and his wife. "Stay to lunch," said the President. They did. (See RELIGION.)

P:The President's son, John, made application for military training at Camp Devens, Mass., in August. He attended in 1923; but not in 1924 because of his brother's death.

*Mr. Coolidge has lately adopted the following style of handshaking: Standing next to a queue of visitors and facing them obliquely as they approach, he extends his hand, grasping that of the first man in the line. Shaking the hand, smiling at the visitor and saying a word, he draws his arm back, pulling the visitor past him. Any inclination to linger on the part of the visitor is forestalled as the President extends his hand to the next and draws him, likewise, past. This practice is said to result in an economy in time of 50%.