Word: bland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work, danger as well as pain threatened the man to whom Dr. Work pointed as the author of his error-Solicitor Ernest Odell Patterson of the Interior Department, the one lawyer whose opinion Dr. Work sought in renewing Sinclair's lease. Dr. Work is, or was, a bland, trusting, optimistic soul, full of cheery conversation and good spirits. Solicitor Patterson was his own choice. He had him appointed in 1926 by President Coolidge-a typical smalltown lawyer-politician from the Midwest, born and raised in Iowa, taken to Washington by a patron (Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury...
...summary follows: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Faude, g. g., Stickler Stollmeyer, l. f. b. r. f. b., Starke Des Roches, r. f. b. l. f. b., Rockefeller Bland, l. h. b. r. h. b., King Rudd, r. h. b. l. h. b., Johnstone W. D. Carter, c. h. b. c. h. b., Cohen Carrigan, o. l. o. r., Eagan Tatham, l. l. l. r., Nickols Kerness, c. f. c. f., Schmitz Vogel, l. r. l. l., Griffin Bodde, o. r. o. l., Woodbridge...
HARVARD DARTMOUTH Salmon, Faude, g. g., Stickler Stollmeyer, l.f.b. r.f.b., Starke Des Roches, r.f.b. l.f.b., Rockefeller Bland, l.h.b. r.h.b., King Rudd, r.h.b. l.h.b., Johnston W. D. Carter, c.h.b. c.h.b., Cohen Carrigan, o.l. o.r., Eagan Tatham, i.l. i.r., Nichols Kerness, c.f. c.f., Schmitz Vogel, i.r. i.l., Griffin Bodde, o.r. o.l., Woodbridge Substitutes--Paton, Grover, Booth. E. C. Carter...
...summary follows: HARVARD CLARK Faude, Salmon, g. g., Carlson Stollmeyer, l.f.b. r.f.b., Deeks Des Roches, r.f.b. l.f.b., O'Neil Bland, l.h.b. r.h.b., A. Haddad W. D. Carter, Hubbard, c.h.b. c.h.b., Spadola Sargent, Booth, Chapel, r.h.b. l.h.b., W. Haddad Bodde, o.l. o.r., G. Higgonbottam Vogel, i.l. i.r., W. Higgonbottam Grover, Kerness, c.f. c.f., Parker Cooper, Carrigan, i.r. i.l., Doberty E. C. Carter, Paton, o.r. o.l., Rogers, Swenson...
...soothingly was this passage dwelt upon by bland British undersecretaries that the New York Herald Tribune's responsive Harold E. Scarborough cabled: "America's reply to the Franco-British naval compromise delivered to the Foreign Office at noon today, was greeted with relief by British officialdom. . . . So confused had British public opinion become over the whole question of the compromise, that alarmist reports from the United States that Washington in the note would bang and bolt the door on further efforts at naval disarmament were more than half believed. . . . London agrees that this note is the most happily...