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...break in mid-air-a surprising score for one new to trapshooting.* At Lewis, occurred a feat even more surprising. As their fishing boat slipped around a bend in the stream, President Coolidge, Broker Lewis and Secret Service Man Walter Ferguson beheld a tall brown crane standing on one leg in the water, 20 yards away. Cranes eat trout. Broker Lewis pays a bounty of $2 for each crane killed on his acres...
There was a crashing report and the crane crumpled into the water, its wing broken. President Coolidge handed back the weapon smiling. Another Secret Service man bashed the wounded bird over the head, carried it home. The President waived the bounty...
...Whiting." The personal phase of the appointment was that from the time Calvin Coolidge was president of the Massachusetts Senate (1914-15), William Fairfield Whiting has believed him a man of destiny. He believed even more faithfully than Mr. Coolidge's political pastor, the late great Winthrop Murray Crane. In 1920 a delegate to the Chicago convention, Mr. Whiting voted to the bitter end to head the ticket with Mr. Coolidge. Then, after Mr. Crane and Senator Lodge and the rest of the Massachusetts men had capitulated to the Ohio idea, Mr. Whiting pushed their man again for vice...
...Crane [Charles R., onetime U. S. Minister to China.-Ed.] told me an amusing story that Gailey found Feng laboriously trying to improve his knowledge of English by attempting to read the life of Abraham Lincoln, and offered to help him to the extent of tutoring an hour a day at any time when Feng was free. Feng left Gailey to confer, with his adjutant as to the hour and was a bit dismayed to find the only free hour that could be found was from 5:30 to 6:30 a. in., but kept to his bargain...
There was no pretense of work next day at the Department of Commerce. Telegrams rained in from President Coolidge, Vice President Dawes, Charles Evans Hughes, Andrew William Mellon and all the obvious people also from Dr. Frank Crane, sermonizer, who said "tickled to death," and Morris Gest, theatrical producer, who said: "My father and mother have been praying for you in Berlin...