THE PRESIDENCY: A Time-Table

There are 86,400 seconds in a day for President as well as loiterer. Both need about 28,800 seconds of sleep. But in the remaining 57,600 seconds they have quite different amounts of labor to perform. A good loiterer can do his business in about 3,600 seconds. A conscientious President may find 57,600 seconds all too little for his purposes. This has been the case with Mr. Coolidge. His only recreations have been his early morning walks and Saturday afternoons on the Mayflower. This has caused a shaking of heads in Washington. As one...

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