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...first thing he did was to put up the barriers, to step behind a shield of Presidential immunity from direct quotation. The gulf between his past and his present was staggering. He had made his career on the same plan as a young man, able but conservative, who goes into a bank, works hard, tries to be efficient, puts by, bit by bit, takes his annual raise and with reasonably good fortune rises eventually to an undistinguished executive post. Imagine such a man suddenly being thrust into high and rather frenzied finance. Such, largely, was Coolidge in politics...
...became public last week. The coat of arms of West Point Military Academy, borne for many a year, was discovered to have been adopted with a number of wretched errors in heraldry. It consists of a helmet, pierced by a sword pointing diagonally downward, imposed upon a vertically striped shield. The whole is surmounted by an eagle. The direction of the sword was from upper right to lower left, the same as the "bar" or, more correctly, the "bend-sinister" (denoting illegitimacy). The eagle faced to the right so that, when carried on a banner, it faced away from...
...said body of international law shall declare war a crime and no longer recognize, in any way or at any time, war as a legitimate institution for the settlement of international disputes. In other words, if war comes, it must be without the shield or sanction of law, but in violation of it as a piracy, or slavery, or peonage or murder...
...urged "Up and at 'em!" Upon the first appearance of a real, live Soviet ambassador, the streets of Paris rang with cries of "Vivent Ies soviets!" No wonder French Republicans repeat the Arab fable of the camel which, when granted leave to stick his head inside the hut to shield it from the cold, grew insolent and dispossessed the owner altogether...
...Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, spoke at Cincinnati two weeks after his fellow lawyer, Secretary of State Hughes, whom he called "the clever lawyer who falls back on methodical ignorance-to shield his client, President Coolidge." Mr. Colby then proceeded into the stormy state of Indiana to awaken echos that had just been stirred by his other fellow lawyer, John W. Davis...