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Only notable misdemeanors of John Roosevelt have been arrests for speeding, breaking photographers' cameras. In Paris, where he went the evening after the Battle of Flowers, Son John sought the diplomatic advice of his father's friend, Ambassador William C. Bullitt, then explained to the press that he had indeed attended the Cannes fete in a carriage put at his disposal by the proprietor of his hotel, but had not attacked the mayor, remembered nothing of the incident. Said he: ''I never met the mayor of Cannes. There were no speeches. I don't know...
...crowd sang La Marseillaise (well), the Star-Spangled Banner (badly). A U. S. Catholic priest pronounced a solemn benediction. He was followed by a rabbi and a Protestant minister. A French military band played the eerie Hymn to the Dead. In his Rooseveltian voice, bald William Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France, introduced the Deputy from Meuse, who spoke no English. Wartime Aviator Harry W. Colmery, Commander of the American Legion, orated for his 4,000,000 comrades, about half of whom got to France before the War was over. Wildly applauded, General Pershing made the formal dedication...
...fighters shot down the Leftist plane of Pilot Dahl who descended by parachute unhurt, was conducted to Rightist headquarters at Salamanca and readily told the above story. Its main lines were soon confirmed to Cannes reporters by Mrs. Dahl who begged U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt to intercede for her husband's release...
...Littlefield troupe had gone abroad early in the summer, expecting to be the first U. S. troupe to do so (TIME, Feb. 22). Everywhere they went they were a sensation. In Paris they danced eleven times in a week. President Lebrun attended opening night. U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, himself a Philadelphian, kissed Catherine Littlefield on both cheeks when the performance was over. When the Littlefield troupe danced in Brussels, King Leopold broke mourning for the first time to see them. Richard Henry Gillespie of the London Hippodrome hired the troupe for two weeks, had to extend their...
...first began to spoil starched dinner parties by discoursing on the inadequacies of Herbert Hoover, then fell under the spell of an errant Philadelphia socialite, William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia...