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August 14, 1925

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COOLIDGE BELIEVES WORLD COURT WON; LINES UP SENATORS; He Relies on Loyalty to Him of Candidates for Election in 1926 to Back the Tribunal. MESSAGE TO STRESS ISSUE It Will Take an Aggressive Stand, Demanding Fulfillment of Republican Pledge. VERMONT JOURNEY TODAY President Will Spend Five Days With His Father -- Mellon Coming to Talk Belgian Debt. COOLIDGE CONVINCED OF CARRYING COURT

By Special to The New York Times

Visited by Pres and Mrs Coolidge on way to Plymouth, Vt

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GERMANY WILL ASK SECURITY PARLEY

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Text of French reply to Germany approved by French Cabinet; Briand leaves London; press comment on conversations with Briand and Amb Houghton's presence; Italian resentment at being ignored

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Notable Births

Russell Baker

1925Russell Baker, American critic and essayist (died 2019)[†]

Russell Wayne Baker was an American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1983). He was a columnist for The New York Times for 36 years, and hosted eleven seasons of the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 stated: "Baker, thanks to his singular gift of treating serious, even tragic events and trends with gentle humor, has become an American institution."