THE PRESIDENCY: Presidential Week

¶Newspaper correspondents, lolling on the porch at Paul Smith's Hotel, were wishing something would happen. Something did. Leonard Smith of the New York Evening Post and Alfred H. Kerchhofer of the Buffalo Evening News canoed, capsized, found the lake waters icy, heard the rescuing put-put of several motor boats. Ever-attendful Major J. F. Coupal, the President's physician, ordered the conoeist-correspondents to bed.

¶The Spokesman told the press in the brief conference held last week, that reports about his active participation in Congressional campaigns this fall (in behalf of Senator Butler of Massachusetts or any other Republican) should be...

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