Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: The President and Mrs. Coolidge occupied a flag-draped box at B. F. Keith's vaudeville theatre where President Wilson often went. Senator Butler was their guest. Mrs. Coolidge applauded every act.

P: Official notification of the launching of the S. S. Saratoga (TIME, Apr. 6) was brought to the President from the Washington Naval Air Station, which had received the message from Camden, N. J., shipways by pigeonwing.

P: Masses of children covered the White House lawns on the Monday after Easter. On that day, Calvin Coolidge Jr. would have had his 17th birthday. The children rolled eggs, were greeted by Calvin Jr.'s parents.

P: Paulina Longworth, aged eight weeks, drove to the White House with Mrs. Medill McCormick, who called on Mrs. Coolidge. She cooed when Secretary Sanders came out to greet her.

P: The President conferred with Senator Curtis, Republican leader of the Senate, and Representative Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Tax-reduction was the theme.

P: The President permitted himself to be quoted indirectly as sympathizing with M. Edouard Herriot, fallen Premier of France. French papers promptly attempted to rap his knuckles.

P: Emphatically the President had nothing to say against the Saghalin section of the Russo-Japanese treaty.

P: On Easter Sunday, the President and Mrs. Coolidge attended divine service at the First Congregational Church, to which Mr. Coolidge had sent White House flowers. Their clothes were smart, not new.

P: The President appointed Frederick C.Hicks* to be Alien Property Custodian. Last fall, he managed the Republican Campaign in the East with such success that Charles D. Hilles, a Republican super-chieftain, advised the President (TIME, Apr. 13) to give him the high responsibility of managing the confiscated property of onetime enemies of the U. S., succeeding Colonel Thomas Miller.

P: President Coolidge, by proclamation following the unanimous recommendation of the Tariff Commission, and in accordance with his power under the "flexible" provision of the Tariff Act, increased the duty on potassium chlorate from 1-c- to 2 1/2 -c- a pound (an increase of 50%, the maximum permitted by the law).

*In 1911, Mr. Hicks resigned from his private banking firm. In 1914, he was elected to Congress from New York State by 4 votes. Thereafter, he was thrice reelected, was, meanwhile, declared by the National Security League to be 100% American.