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...Coolidge, their other son, the members of the Cabinet (except Messrs. Hoover, in California, and Mellon, abroad), Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, the President's Secretaries and aides. At Northampton the next morning, church services were held. Colonel Coolidge and Mrs. Andrew Goodhue, grandparents of the dead boy, joined the funeral party there. Services were equally simple and brief, as in the former ceremony, of only about one-half hour's duration...
...BOY'S OWN BOOK OF POLITICS-Wm. G. Shepherd- Macmillan...
Accident more than anything placed the erstwhile President of the Senate in the Presidential Chair; but something worth while caused him to rise from a village school boy, from an obscure lawyer, to un homme d'État and a respected Senator. In Indo-China as Magistrate, in Algeria as Justice of the Peace, as Minister at various times of the Colonies, of Commerce, of Education, or of Foreign Affairs, his low, slow and simple voice never failed to impress men. He speaks with a certain ardor that compels, and with a knowledge of his subject that only brings...
Undoubtedly he is a great power, perhaps the greatest power in Russia. His mind is a volcano spewing up from his revolutionary soul the cruel lava of Communism. In this he differs from Rykov (TIME, July 14), who is the conservative power functioning noiselessly. Grigori is "the bomb boy of Bolshevism," whose autocratic impetuosity has earned for him the title of "Red Emperor." Again, he is different from Trotzky, whose aggressive spirit is tempered with shrewdness and whose power is wielded less by the force of oratory than by Machiavellian methods. In Zinoviev the fire of revolution burns unextinguishably...
...soldiers in many uniforms; workers in white and blue blouses; Communist athletes, male and female, the former naked except for a pair of trunks, the latter clothed in white shirts and short blue knickers; English Communists from the Clyde, dressed in sombre Sunday-go-to-meeting garments; Communist boys and girls, "sweating in black leather suits with red badges", skinny members of the "Young Pioneers," Bolshevik Boy Scouts, attired in skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue helmets added yet another splash of color. And last, but not least, Mohammedans from Turkestan...