The White House Week

The White House Week

P: President Coolidge for the first time attached his signature and made law a bill passed by Congress. It gives the privilege of franking her mail to Mrs. Florence Kling Harding. P: The President sent his congratulations to Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan on the occasion of the latter's marriage. (See Page 11.) P: Mr. Coolidge accepted a place as honorary head of a Business Men's Committee of the Foundation for the Free Distribution of the American Standard Bible. Other members of the Committee include Woodrow Wilson arid William Howard Taft. Said the President: "It is a pleasure to become associated with this fine Christian work."

P:The President nominated George B. Christian, Jr., Secretary to President Harding, for a post on the Federal Trade Board. Opposition to the appointment came from Senator Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, and Senator King, Democrat, of Utah. They declared that the former Secretary to the President was not qualified.

P: The President transmitted to Congress a message advocating banking relief for the farming regions of the Northwest, and the deficiency budget for the present year as prepared by the Budget Bureau. (See Page 6.) P: President Coolidge instructed Secretary of the Navy Denby that no members of the Navy were to take part in boxing exhibitions savoring of commercialism. The Methodist Board of Temperance and Public Morals had protested that a recent exhibition in Manhattan, given for the Navy's athletic fund, "had all the earmarks of a prize fight."

P: At midnight of a January evening, the President issued from the White House a statement that he would have the Department of Justice institute prosecutions against those implicated in the Senate's Teapot Dome disclosures.

P: The President gave prizes, offered by the Highway Education Board and the National Grange, to a teacher arid two pupils, authors of superior essays on highways.

P: Visitors at the White House included : Judge E. H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation, who declared that the change to an eight-hour day in the steel mills had increased the cost of production 10%; Governor Towner of Porto Rico and members of the Porto Rican legislature; the "Coolidge-for-President" Club of New Jersey--its members wearing six-inch red-white-and-blue buttons, "Coolidge Again"; Speaker Gillett of the House, introducing his nephew; Sir Robert Home; Charles D. Hilles, Republican leader in New York; Comptroller of the Currency Dawes and three Indianapolis bankers; Governor Morrow of the Canal Zone; Seifoulah Yousry Pasha (TIME, Jan. 21), Minister from Egypt, presenting his credentials. P: Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge attended a reception of the Congressional Club in their honor to the usual fanfare of trumpets and Hail to the Chief by the Marine Band. Mrs. Coolidge wore cloth of silver trimmed with chinchilla fur, a silver chain about her neck, no other jewelry. House guests at the Executive mansion included Howard Chandler Christy (who is painting a portrait of the President) and Mrs. Christy, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, William M. Butler, the President's campaign manager, Mrs. Butler and their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Butler; a White House dinner was given for the Supreme Court at which Mrs. Morgan Butler sang.