The Coolidge Week

P: In his White House office one morning last week sat President Coolidge, his finger hovering over a button. The clock reached 9:30. The President pushed the button. Straightway started, in distant Toledo, the presses of the new Toledo Blade newspaper plant.

P:The President accepted the resignation of Dr. J. Morton Howell of Dayton, Ohio, as Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary to Egypt. Owing to ill health of Mrs. Howell, Dr. Howell had twice before presented unaccepted resignations. He was born in Uniopolis, Ohio, in 1863; in 1921 became Consul General at Cairo, Egypt, has been Minister to Egypt since 1922.

P: "That's the finest gift I ever had in my life," said President Machado of Cuba, as he last week boarded a snip for Havana. The gift was an autographed photograph of President Coolidge.

P:One Charles Holz, 40, Philadelphia waiter, markedly resembles President Coolidge. Last week Mr. Holz was asked by a Manhattan cinema concern to "double" for the President in film scenes laid in and around Rutland and Plymouth, Vt., Said Mr. Holz: "I will accept, if Mr. Coolidge does not object."

P:Among White House visitors last week were: Edward N. Hurley (onetime Shipping Board Chairman), who discussed the automobile business; Mayor Fred Bauer of Lynn, Mass., who discussed the shoe business; Jules Sauerwein, foreign editor of Le Matin, Paris, who discussed French business; National Committee Chairman William M. Butler, who discussed business and politics. The President also received Sosislav Antoniyevitch, new Minister from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, who presented letters of credence.

P:The President appointed Miss Helen Varick Boswell of Manhattan to represent the U. S. in the International Exposition at Seville, Spain.