THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Jan. 12, 1925

¶ Three thousand members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see Page 15) appeared in the White House grounds. The President addressed them from the south portico, saying: "You are the wonder-workers of all the ages. . . . We trust ourselves to you, perhaps with some doubt as to what you many finally do with us and to us, but at least with firm convictions that your activities will save life .from becoming very monotonous. And, besides, we realize that if we did not give you our confidence, you would go ahead without it."

¶The country was...

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