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...Judson C. Welliver, former newspaper man, was installed at the White House by President Harding as "Chief Clerk." His function has been to prepare material for speeches by the President, write letters, etc. Last week he announced that he had accepted a position with the American Petroleum Institute (at a better salary). Mr. Coolidge said he was very sorry to part with Judson Welliver...
...text of the article will doubtless be recorded by the President's Air Inquiry Board, and the Court cf Inquiry into the Shenandoah disaster will probably make much of it. In speaking the praises of dirigibles (which is the major function of the article), Commander Lansdowne himself apparently answered the statements of those who said that he feared to go on the fatal trip on account of weather conditions. The article said: -"The airplane is now reasonably safe, and the great airship inflated with helium is beyond a doubt the safest method of travel known to man, taking precedence...
Cosmopolite, metropolite, he conceives the function of the company to be the giving of opera in the best possible manner. This is also the conception of Manager Gatti-Casazza; their consultations are cooperative, for where Mr. Kahn's Lincoln-waits?there waits harmony...
...Washington the National Council of the Congregational Church was addressed by President Coolidge, who is its Honorary Moderator.* The President chose as his text the interrelation between religion and government. He declared that "the chief function of organized government is to maintain order, provide security for persons and property, and set up instrumentalities for the administration of justice." Then he proceeded to dwell upon the manner in which religious influence may be exerted by both the clergy and the laity in helping the government to achieve its purposes; and crystallized his conception of the vital importance of religion...
...novel liason with European politics, a tangible and lasting connection with international affairs through the League covenants, the interest of the government at Washington in the creation of some kind of court was repeatedly evidenced. In truth, the survival of that expression is the Court of Arbitration still functioning at the Hague. But this is merely a panel of eminent jurists who function as consulting lawyers and cannot be considered a real court. The need for a means of creating a legislative digest of the growing international opinion on policies of peaceful relationship still exists. And only such a tribunal...