After 16 months back among his fellow citizens, from whom he had been removed for eight years by the exaltation of highest public office, Citizen Calvin Coolidge last week began to compose for his fellow citizens a daily message on subjects of current public interest. For this the McClure newspaper syndicate contracted to pay him $200,000. For the privilege of printing "CALVIN COOLIDGE SAYS:" without the syndicate credit line, the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune was willing to pay McClure $150 per day. No ex-President had ever before afforded such a...
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