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Recently, however, the President temporarily recovered his power of speech, and in an almost gossipy interview with Bruce Barton, widely known through his efforts to bring religion down to the intelligence of his public, gave his sentiments on numerous topics of modern conversation--but avoiding all mention of politics. The paprters, astounded that he who could not, did speak, objected strenuously. Where, they asked in righteous indignation, where was their friend, the Official Spokesman? And if he had been superseded, why were they not given a chance for a scoop...
When President Coolidge settled back in his old green wicker rocker just before leaving White Pine Camp, and droned along for an hour or more, opening his heart to a curly-headed man with angelic eyes (TIME, Oct. 4); and when the angelic one, Publicist Bruce Barton, discoverer of a Man and of a Book that Nobody Knows, went forth and told The People all the homely facts that the President had revealed about himself, it seemed that nothing but good could come of it to every one. The President was apparently one of the most contented mortals ever heard...
...decided that he was sick of Republican talk; so he ruffled his flowing, black silk necktie and emitted a broadside against President Coolidge. Said he: "The Republicans have been banking on Coolidge popularity but are now trying to sell the President personally to the country through a press agent-Bruce Barton-who is best known as the author of the book The Man Nobody Knows. This is simply an effort to draw red herring across the trail of the dismal record of the complete failure of the so-called 'Presidential program...
Pilot Cobham, after kissing his wife and child, told them one thing he was particularly glad of: Premier Bruce of Australia had sailed for England by steamship the same day that he, Cobham, had hopped into the air, a month ago. Premier Bruce would dock that day at Marseilles and here was he, Alan Cobham, in spite of a Burmese monsoon, already home again. It spoke well for long distance flying, "from anywhere to anywhere...
...President, often dubbed "Silent Cal" by those who do not know him, is at times talkative when he is with a friend who he knows will not put a political twist on everything he says. Bruce Barton, who agrees with Mr. Coolidge on religion and many another fundamental, was exactly the person to reveal the President to his people. He was permitted to publish, five days later, through the Associated Press, a report of the interview in which the President said...