Mr. Coolidge's Week

THE PRESIDENCY

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: The President furbished his speech accepting the Republican nomination, and was reported to have abbreviated it in part by cutting out some of the minor issues.

P: President Coolidge formally accepted the resignation of Charles B. Warren, retiring Ambassador to Mexico (TIME, Aug. 11), in a letter to that gentleman, saying: "You have solved many of the perplexing questions, and especially have provided for the protection of American life and American property and the settlement of disputed claims. I feel certain that you will look back in the future upon this work with the utmost satisfaction, as an effort that has greatly contributed to the welfare of our country."

P: John F. Hylan, New York's Mayor, addressed a letter to the President on the subject of a proposed loan to Germany after the Dawes Plan is put into effect. The Mayor promptly made his letter public. It said:

"Admitting that American investors have an absolute right to put their money into whatever channel they desire--and this includes foreign Governments already indebted to the United States in a sum exceeding $10,000,000,000--does not fair play require that all such investors be promptly advised that no international banker nor skilful strategist in party politics can sound a clarion call for the manhood of American to drop work, home ties and loved ones to risk or give up life or limb in defense of moneys loaned on private initiative? Should they not be told that the official Government at Washington, which has taken no official cognizance of the proceedings culminating in the announcement of the latest international financial agreement, will not permit under any plan of patriotism, moral obligation or specious pretext, the conversion of the young men of America into military and naval battering-rams to enforce with official sanction that which has never received official sanction!"

The President referred the letter to the U. S. World War Debt Commission before replying.

P: The President addressed a letter to the Chautauqua Institution at Chautauqua, N. Y., congratulating that famed and now national institution upon the 50th anniversary of its founding.

P: Even on the most torrid days under which the White House sweltered, President Coolidge continued to receive callers, with his double-breasted blue coat tightly buttoned.

P: The President, overheated by the Washington atmosphere, exhausted by preparing his speech of acceptance, worn because of the recent death of his son, decided to reverse his previous plans and take a brief vacation away from Washington. It was announced that, following the delivery of his acceptance speech, he would proceed to Plymouth, Vt., to spend ten days of rest on his father's farm.