The White House Week

P: President and Mrs. Coolidge held their first official reception last week. It was in honor of the diplomatic corps. The Ambassadors and Ministers of more than 50 nations, with their ladies and attaches, filed in headed by Senor Don Juan Riano y Gayangos, Ambassador from Spain and dean of the diplomatic corps. The members of the Cabinet and their ladies, Vice President and Mrs. Dawes and the Foreign Affairs Committee (House) graced the occasion. For two hours the Marine Band serenaded the 2,000 guests.

P: Calvin Coolidge, President of the American Red Cross, addressed the annual meeting of that organization in Washington:

"Those who conceived the broadened scope of the Red Cross and those who have brought the work to its present state of efficiency quite properly, I believe, should receive no small share of credit for the extension of the nation's beneficence in so many fields of endeavor."

P: A heavy grey ulster with a lining of green stripes arrived in Washington and was rushed to 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. by a special messenger of the B. & O. Railway. A delighted secret service man received it and despatched it to his master's bedroom. He then informed the President that the presidential ulster had been left behind in a hotel room at Chicago on President Coolidge's recent visit there--left behind but recovered. The President did not smile. He does not like to have his clothing lost, and the secret service men are responsible for preserving his wardrobe intact when he travels.

P: A group of Senators and Representatives called to inform the President that Congress was in session and ready to receive any communications which the President cared to submit. The President submitted: 1) his message to Congress, 2) his budget recommendations and 3) a long list of nominations for confirmation, at the head of which stood the name of Dwight Filley Davis to be Secretary of War.