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...record basis. When an on-the-record blooper brought him into collision with Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, Harding also clammed up. Thereafter, he demanded that all questions be submitted in writing well in advance, and answered only those he chose. The same technique was used by Calvin Coolidge, who was allergic to direct quotations and usually insisted on having even his indirect quotations attributed to "a White House spokesman." Herbert Hoover also required written questions, and almost abandoned conferences altogether toward the end of his term. Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to master the press conference...
...type of "front porch" campaign which President Eisenhower said he would wage, there is plenty of precedent. Calvin Coolidge in 1924 did no strenuous campaigning but easily won election. The President has little need for introducing himself to the voters. Nothing he could say in the campaign could add greatly to what he has already said...
Died. Pauline Morton Davis, 67, widow of Dwight Davis (Secretary of War under Calvin Coolidge and tennis' Davis Cup donor), founder (1929) of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, first woman member (1924) of the Republican National Committee; after long illness; in Washington...
Before his departure he said he had "run out of adjectives" to praise his attorneys, Calvin P. Bartlett and John L. Saltonstall, Jr. '38, who have represented him since January 1954, when the charges first arose...
Phog then called in reinforcements, managed to enlist the help of 1) Negro Concert Singer Etta Moten, a Kansas alumna, who wrote to the Chamberlains, 2) Dowdal H. Davis, general manager of a Kansas City Negro weekly, who flew east to make his pitch, 3) Professor Calvin Vanderwerf, of K.U.'s chemistry department, who passed through Philadelphia and called on Wilt's mother. Said Mrs. Chamberlain: "We've had many colleges speak to us about Wilton, but you're the first one who was a professor. I'm so happy to have someone talk about...