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...your staff are usually accurate to the point of trickiness in the use of words. [In the Dec. 5 issue appears: "His message to the 70th Congress was the opus mains of President Coolidge's week...
...Joint Committee of Congress (Senators Curtis of Kansas and Robinson of Arkansas, Representatives Tilson, Green and Garner) to announce that the 70th Congress was in session (see THE CONGRESS...
...70th Congress received last week from President Coolidge an almanac of some 9,000 words on the State of the Union. He was sorry it could not be shorter. The bursting-with-fact nature of its paragraphs were its apology. Where it had to dip into theory it emerged abruptly and proceeded apace. Levity is not permitted to Presidents, especially in surveys of the state of the union, yet such is the Coolidge humor that some of this message's least ponderous paragraphs were devoted to three of his most vexed topics...
...reading of the Deficiency Bill. Later he was unabashed by a report from Charge d'Affaires Whitehouse in Paris, denying the alleged spying on Mayor Walker of New York City, whom Mr. Gallivan, a cunning clown, denied having named by name. The outburst served merely to notify the 70th Congress that jocose Mr. Gallivan, who little resembles most Harvard men of the '80's, was again on hand with his alliterative eloquence, his unquenchable Americanism...
Bills, Bills, Bills. The numbers on the bills filed in the House passed well beyond 6,700 before the first week of the 70th Congress was out. "Congressional Record" was flooded with entries like the following...