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...always) vested in the Chief of Staff at Washington under whom General Pershing served as a subordinate in charge only of the A. E. F. During the 19 months of U. S. war four generals in succession were Chief of Staff-Hugh Lenox Scott, Tasker Howard Bliss, John Biddle and Peyton Conway March, General March, long, lean, bearded son of a college professor, took command in March 1918 and carried the Army through the Armistice. Last week appeared his The Nation at War* to take its place beside General Pershing's Pulitzer-prize-winning My Experiences in the World...
...Ambassador Robert Woods Bliss gently made known at a conference in the Argentine Foreign Office that present U. S. tariff laws bar U. S. entrance into any reciprocal tariff agreement, however advantageous...
Generally, when innocence becomes bliss, farewell innocence. Not so with Authoress Stern's delightful hero and heroine. Both infant prodigies, sophisticated apparently from the cradle up, they blissfully defend their childlike birthrights through 567 pages of close novel-writing, through five or six years of their harum-scarum careers...
...Trustees' Committee on Painting, long a rampart of conservatism. Committee conservatives are Architect Cass Gilbert, Lawyers Elihu Root Jr., William Church Osborn and Sugarman Horace Havemeyer who has given the Metropolitan many a Degas, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes. Modernism might have been doomed but for Committeeman Cornelius Bliss, a recent appointee,* brother and estate executor of the late Lizzie Bliss, benefactor of the Museum of Art. Conscientious, publicity shy, Cornelius Bliss is stanch for his late sister's modern art. When Curator Burroughs presented his nine selections to the Committee, Committeemen Gilbert and Root were absent. The Committee...
...much trouble, and her son adds more. After his engagement to the wealthy Richards girl, he turns around and marries Bessie Casey, a poor fisherman's daughter. Mattie vaguely senses that he is repeating her own headlong mistake, but she encourages him in memory of the brief bliss she once knew. Bessie Casey, though no equal, will make a good wife. Captain Archer consoles himself with the thought that great-grand-children were what he wanted most...