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...Coolidge's Week ¶ President Coolidge let it be known that he would support Secretary Mellon's plan for an appropriation of $28,500,000 to build revenue cutters and increase the Coast Guard to prevent rum smuggling. He received a delegation from the National Woman's party asking a Constitutional Amendment granting absolute legal equality to women...
...increase commissioned officers of the Coast Guard from...
...Washington made known that similar steps are about to be taken against a bootleg ring which has obstinately kept its returns close. If this raid is successful the plum which falls ought to be large enough to pay for a soldiers bonus and deepen every indentation on the Atlantic Coast...
...months ago seven destroyers, speeding south along the Pacific coast, bound for San Diego, ran ashore 75 miles north of Santa Barbara. Twenty-three men were lost, and $13,000,000 worth of ships. A Court of Inquiry investigated; court martial proceedings are under way against eleven officers. There may be convictions and acquittals. But the lesson of the disaster and the law of the sea were laid down in the report of the Board of Inquiry, written by Rear Admiral William V. Pratt. This report was published last week...
...Albert Abrams was born in San Francisco in 1863. He studied at the University of Heidelberg, received his M. D. at 20. For a number of years he occupied a respected place in the medical fraternity of the Coast, was a professor in Cooper Medical College (later the medical school of Leland Stanford, Jr., University) and an officer in various medical societies. Until two years ago he was a member of the American Medical Association. For some years he was interested in " spondylotherapy," a system of " physiotherapy of the spine" invented by him. About 1912 he began to experiment with...