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...There, his most serious guest was Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, come to report that in spite of all his efforts, the Geneva Arms Conference had adjourned to October. Its 14-year record of accomplishment still o, many pronounced the Conference a dead fish. But President Roosevelt, bland, told a Campobello crowd: "I am glad to have Norman Davis here with me. He can go back to Geneva and say he saw with his own eyes what a boundary without fortifications means." That same day his Secretary of the Navy promised to build a U. S. navy "second...
Died, Baron Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss Wester Wemyss, 69, onetime (1917-19) First Sea Lord of Britain; of uremia; in Cannes, France. Commander of the Second Battle Squadron in the Mediterranean, he distinguished himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...
...your issue of May 1 is a letter from a wife of a grandson of Silver Dick Bland. This is of interest for two reasons: first, he has no such grandson, and second, the false lady tells a tale equally false. ... As his son, it is my privilege to try to inform her, and you also, as your journalism has been of the same genre...
...TIME cares, TIME will read William Vincent Byars' An American Commoner and find there the quotation from Dana in his Sun: "R. P. Bland is the only statesman produced in this country in the last quarter of the loth Century." And TIME may find the following in the Sun early in 1912: "We note that Champ Clark has selected Bill Stone as his campaign manager. Be careful, Champ, remember what Stone did to Bland at Chicago." And if TIME is not, history will be concerned with what happened at Chicago: That Bland led without any sort of organized support...
...JOHN BLAND...