Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: On behalf of the Trustees of Princeton University, Mr. E. D. Duffield, President of the Prudential (Gibraltar) Life Insurance Co., extended to Calvin Coolidge an invitation to receive an LL.D. next June.

P: The President's opposition--both on the grounds of economy and in the hope of preventing competitive armament races--succeeded in forestalling the movement to increase the elevation of guns on the capital ships of the U. S. Navy.

P: Judge Elbert H. Gary, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and a sub-committee of the Citizens' Committee of 1,000 break fasted off the White House table on buckwheat cakes and sausages, urged Mr. Coolidge that the Volstead Act must be enforced by precept and example.

P: On a proposal that Congress give Cabinet officers the privilege of appearing before it, the President let it be known that his stand was neither here nor there--but that the matter must be decided entirely by Congress itself.

P: A choice slice of a prize steer which Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge inspected recently at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago (TIME, Dec. 15) arrived at the White House as a gift.

P: The annual diplomatic reception took place at the White House, with some 1,600 guests present. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes assisted Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge in the receiving. Other members of the Cabinet and their wives, usually a part of the receiving line, were excused. In attendance at the function appeared the Hon. Harry M. Daugherty, onetime Attorney General.

P: C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, on Mr. Coolidge's behalf, addressed letters to prominent Republican members of Congress, urging them to secure and expedite the pass age of a bill for reorganizing the Executive branch of the Government.

P: The President met members of the National Council of Farmers' Cooperative Marketing Associations in the White House grounds, told them that he believed in cooperative marketing, but did not offer it as an "Aladdinlike project."

P: The renting situation in Washington having reached the position of a heated controversy, the President instructed that a bill be prepared for presentation to Congress setting up a commission to regulate rentals in the interest of health and morals by means of the Government's police power. This brought the realtors of the Capital up in arms against him. An emergency measure for regulating rents (established during the War) is terminating; and tenants and landlords are at each other's throats and almost at the President's.