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...Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Senate, rushed to the White House with alarm on his lips. Cotton had dropped 40 to 50 points (TIME, Oct. 4), following the publication of the Department of Agriculture's estimate of a superabundant crop. Forthwith, President Coolidge announced that the Farm Labor Board would extend a $30,000,000 credit to co-operative marketing associations which had been hit by the slump in cotton prices. The next day, the President appointed Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Jardine and Eugene Meyer Jr., Managing Director of the War Finance Corp...
...Will Rogers, funnyman, self-styled President's unofficial ambassador to Europe, telegraphed Mr. Coolidge that he would like to have a few minutes' chat with him. Forthwith, the President, who has recently been revealing his human side to the nation, invited Mr. Rogers to spend the night at the White House. The funnyman arrived, dined, told some of his "Worst Stories," slept, left the next morning. Mr. Rogers then informed the press: "I guess I was too much for him. We sat around in the living-room upstairs, swapping yarns, but by 8 o'clock he started...
Everybody knew before the conventions exactly who would be nominated; newspapers had biographical sketches ready to release. The names of four able Standard Bearers forthwith flared across the headlines...
...Kondylis of Greece, a typically, hard-boiled militarist whose agents have resorted more than once to poisoning to gain his ends, announced himself greatly troubled last week by aspersions publicly cast in his direction that he is playing politics. Pinked upon this nice point of military honor, General Kondylis forthwith dissolved the minute political party of which he was nominally the head, relaxed not one iota his dictatorial powers...
...bolstered by the plebiscite was seen last week when he telephoned King Alfonso XIII and asked if the monarch would pardon several artillery officers implicated in the recently suppressed mutiny against the Government (TIME, July 5 et ceq.). Replied King Alfonso over the telephone, "Si! I will pardon them." Forthwith the mutineers' sentences (one, the death penalty) were commuted...