The Washington herald., 1921-08-14
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> Secretary Weeks is q guest over
me weekend at Mrs George Bar
netrs Virginia place. Wakefield
Manor. Mrs Barnett was In town
TOR 4 few days last week. looking
- attractive ss ever, but the heat
was 50 intense that she shortened
ner visit and hurried back to the
eountry.
II is rumored that Gen. Barnett
may be the next president Of George
Washington University. Trustees
OF the university are said to be
considering him as a possible sue
eessor to William N. Collier. re-
gently appointed American Ambas-
sador to Spain Gen Barnett, you
know. was commandant of the Ma
rines during the war and is now
head OF the Department of the
Pacific.
II he is asked to accept the posi-
tion IL Is believed he will consent
to serve, as he has always been a
friend of George Washington
University.
Washington will be glad II the
general Is offered the position, as
il will insure the continued presence
Of Mrs. Barnett in the city. She is
so attractive and is so generally
popular that her absence in the
event of the general being ordered
permanently away, would be deeply
felt.
The Vice President and Mrs,
Coolidge are still away and no one
seems to know just when they are
coming back. They are having
delightfully."- cool time in New Eng
land. spending the greater part OF
their absence from Washington at
Swampscott as the guests Of Mrs.
Frank Stearns. They were down at
Marthas Vineyard fr q day
or two. 1 heard. OF course. no one
-an blame the Coolidges at being a
bit hmesick in Washington for
New England. They are both New
-Englanders, and fancy, have never
liyen through as torrid a summer as
washington has shown the new
administration these past rev
months. Before they return they
are going to Plymouth, VT, to visit
he Vice Presidents father, John
Coolidge.
have heard rumors that the Vice
President and Mrs Coolidge may
they return. They have been at the
willard Hotel since the inaugura-
tion, where the former Vice Presi-
dent and Mrs. Marshall lived during
their years in Washington. Mrs.
Coolidge is such a home body.
imagine she rather longs for a home
OF her own When the new admin
Istration first came in they talked
- AV.x he VfcA
Presidents. For a time IL seemed
as though Congress really would
authorize such a purchase, and IL
was even said that the house Mrs
John Henderson had recently built
on sixteenth street had been select
ed But the talk died down, and
Mrs. Henderson's house was bought
by someone else, and the Coolidges
followed the precedent set by their
predecessors and took up their
abode at the willard. It does seem
that the government ought to fur
nish a house for the Vice President
As well as the President They say
when il was talked about that Vice
President Marshall shifted at the
thought, darkly prophesying that
nothing would come Of II but talk.
Ard he was right They talked and
talked. but didn't buy.
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Chief Justice Taft has recently
bought house. I heard sometime
ago that he was looking for a place.
In fact. he began his search imme-
diately after his appointment to the
Supreme Court bench. The Tafts
are home loving people. and as a
supreme Court position is for life,
fancy they thought they might as
vel be about the business of finding
4 home as soon as possible
The place they finally selected Is
the former home of Representative
Avian T. Fuller. of Massachusetts,.
Representative Fuller did not come
PACK to the last Congress, and he
had been wanting for some time
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