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Popular. Two other folk tales about President Coolidge came out during the week. One tale was that, when asked what he would do after retiring to Vermont, he replied: "Well, for a year or two I am going to whittle." The other tale: A taxi-driver drew up at the White House with an inquiring look. The President, just coming out, nodded. Off his seat leaped the taxi-driver and opened his taxi door. President Coolidge paid no heed. A detective told the taximan that the President's nod had merely been a greeting, not a summons.. . . Next day, walking with his detectives, President Coolidge ejaculated: "Say, do you think that taxi driver was disappointed?
*Had the meal at which President Coolidge received Mr. Lorimer been dinner instead of breakfast, a prediction by Mayor Thompson would have come true. In 1910, just prior to Mr. Lorimer's ejection from the Senate, Theodore Roosevelt refused to attend a club dinner in Chicago until an invitation to Mr. Lorimer was withdrawn. Said Mayor Thompson : "Roosevelt is riding for a fall. He will never get to the White House again. I predict that 'Billy' Lorimer will dine with a (rood Republican President in the White House. And I hope I'm there to see him!"
In a report by Charles Nagel of St. Louis onetime (1900-13) Secretary of Commerce & Labor chairman of a joint commission set up by the National Industrial Conference Board and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. †Frank R. Kent of theBaltimore Sun. *He is Chief of Staff. He is Chief of Naval Operations.