Mr. Coolidge's Week

THE PRESIDENCY

Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: The President nominated Joseph Clark Grew, Minister to Switzerland, to succeed William Phillips as Under Secretary of State. The nomination was confirmed by the Senate. Like Mr. Phillips, who was appointed Ambassador to Belgium (TiME, March 3), Mr. Crew's appointment was a case of promotion from the ranks.

P:Sir Esme Howard, new Ambassador from Great Britain, called on the President, presented his credentials.

P:The President of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals called Mr. Coolidge's attention to the fact that Be-Kind-to-Animals Week will be observed from April 6 to 12, to which the President replied by letter: "I am glad to learn that the celebration of this week is becoming more and more an affair of national interest and concern. The cause is one which thoroughly deserves all the consideration that can possibly be given it."

P: By official proclamation President Coolidge restored citizenship to men who deserted from the Army and Navy between the Armistice and the conclusion of our treaty of peace with Germany. The proclamation did not commute any court martial sentences, nor restore citizenship to those who deserted prior to the Armistice.

P: The President attended a dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association and said in an informal speech: "I suppose that the American people are conscious that we have a Constitution of the United States, and I know that they are attached to the defense and maintenance of that great institution."

P:The President personally hung the Congressional Medal of Honor around the neck of Henry Breault, torpedoman, second class, U. S. N. On Oct. 28, 1923, Breault was aboard the submarine O-5 sunk in Limon Bay off the Panama Canal in collision with the merchantship Abangares. He reached the deck before the submarine sank, discovered that one of his comrades was trapped below. He rushed down, shut a water-tight door and remained with his shipmate until the submarine was raised by a salvage party 38 hours later.

P:In accordance with the "flexible" provision of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law, the President raised the duty on wheat from 30c to 42c a bushel and on wheat flour from 78c to $1.04 a cwt.

P:The President received a letter from Edward L. Doheny who offered to complete at his personal risk the Navy's oil storage tanks at Hawaii. He said failure to complete the tanks soon would result in loss of the investment. Payments to Mr. Doheny's company which was building the tanks under its oil lease, have been stopped.