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TIME in its issue of April 23, printed a letter from J. F. Bassett of Boston in which he writes it would not be fitting for President Coolidge to humiliate himself by flying with Lindbergh in "those brown overalls that aviators wear...
...inform Mr. Bassett that I have just completed a 2,285 rnile hop from San Diego to Minneapolis clad in my seal and ermine coat, satin dress, white hat and corsage of roses, for I made the trip in a Ryan monoplane-brougham type, sistership to the one Lindbergh now owns...
...President Coolidge don his frock coat, silk hat and cane and fly with Lindbergh...
...President Coolidge received the first "buddy poppy," inaugurating the pre-Memorial Day drive of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. . . . President Coolidge pressed a button and lit the new Lindbergh airway beacon across the continent in Los Angeles. . . . One of President Coolidge's ceremonial assistants (doubtless, James Clement Dunn of the State Department) phrased and sent a cablegram to Reza Khan Pahlevi, Shah of Persia, in which President Coolidge wished peace & prosperity to Persia on the second anniversary of Reza Khan Pahlevi's coronation. . . . Flowers from President & Mrs. Coolidge went to Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, first mother...
...Passed the delayed joint resolution giving a special gold medal to Colonel Lindbergh; after stormy argument, ordered a similar medal struck for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth; passed a bill awarding the Distinguished Flying Cross to the crew of the Bremen, to Commander de Pinedo of Italy and Lieutenant Costes and Lieut.-Commander Lebrix of France...