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...President Coolidge wrote to Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia: "After having considered the request which you and Senator Pepper laid before me for further extension of the leave of Brigadier General Butler from his duties in the Marine Corps in order that he might continue to serve as head of the Police Department of the City of Philadelphia, I have come to the conclusion that the request ought not to be granted...
...course, I have every wish to help you and to grant any request Senator Pepper might make, and I have every sympathy with your wish to take all reasonable precautions to secure the enforcement of the law, but I am convinced that there are no new elements which ought to cause me to recede from the position I took last year...
...submit the following idea; if he accepts it, I request that I be notified immediately, in order that I might make arrangements to go elsewhere next fall...
Rear Admiral Billard has written that he has changed the title of his address, though the subject matter of the talk will conform to the title announced in October. The old title "Sea-fighting Along Rum Row" has been changed at the Rear Admiral's request to "Peace and War Service--the United. States Coast Guard." "I am entirely in accord with your thought," Rear Admiral Billard has written the Union in discussing his address, "and it shall be my purpose not to touch at all upon any principles of prohibition. I shall rather try to interest the young...
...Emperor of India and so forth, has finally taken a good look at himself as others see him and is evidently ill pleased at the spectacle. The royal portrait by Charles Simms, R.A., which was recently exhibited in New York has been withdrawn from the Royal Academy by official request from Buckingham Palace...