Last week President Coolidge added a new restriction to correspondents' reports of their semiweekly White House conferences. When, as often happens, questions asked at these conferences are not answered, the fact of their having been asked may no longer be mentioned. An unanswered question must be considered as unasked. Silence equals annihilation.
Correspondents traced the new ruling to last fortnight's flurry over the President's rumored signing, in 1912, of an anti-third term petition directed against Theodore Roosevelt (TIME, May 23). In view of President Coolidge's possible 1928 presidential candidacy, his signing of...
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