National Affairs: Manual Labor

Among the official duties of a President which take up much of his valuable time is the mechanical operation of signing his name. There is only one person who has authority to do this for the new President. She is Mrs. Vila B. Pugh, a clerk in the General Land Office. She signs "Calvin Coolidge" to official land grants, thus relieving the President of a certain amount of manual labor.

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