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British Proposals. Chief Delegate William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the British Admiralty, proposed...
Cleverer was a Japanese attaché who noted that the ages of the chief delegates closely approximated a 3-5-5 ratio. Mr. Gibson is 43; Mr. Bridgeman 62; and Viscount Saito 69. Japanese thought that a good ratio, a good joke...
Professor P. W. Bridgeman '04. Rumford medalist, and a physicist famous for his research in high pressure, is at present working on the viscosity of mercury but stated, when asked whether he had subjected any atoms to hydraulic compression that he had limited his activities in this field to pressure of many tons upon single metal crystals: At Yale, a pressure physicist has succeeded in making a fat square atom into a long thin atom by means of a pile driver, but the significance of his experiment has not thrilled the scientific world...
Conservative Members (bursting into cheers en masse) : "Shame on the Laborites! Baldwin for Britons! Silence! Order! Hurrah! . . ." Joseph Batey (Laborite, rising to filibuster against First Lord of the Admiralty Bridgeman) : "I will not permit the First Lord to speak! I will shout down any man who attempts to speak for this bill...
...Jumping Jack" Jones (passionately) : "Mr. Bridgeman, you are a murderer...