THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Apr. 20, 1925

¶ The President and Mrs. Coolidge occupied a flag-draped box at B. F. Keith's vaudeville theatre where President Wilson often went. Senator Butler was their guest. Mrs. Coolidge applauded every act.

¶ Official notification of the launching of the S. S. Saratoga (TIME, Apr. 6) was brought to the President from the Washington Naval Air Station, which had received the message from Camden, N. J., shipways by pigeonwing.

¶ Masses of children covered the White House lawns on the Monday after Easter. On that day, Calvin Coolidge Jr. would have had his 17th...

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