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...Navy? Because the admirals and experts of the General Board are predominantly Big-Navy men, observers last week scrutinized with interest the Board's astonishingly prompt recommendation. Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, heavy and stooped new head of the Board, had testified before the Senate committee on ratification: "We do not get parity with Great Britain. . . . We should have maintained the ratio of vessels [with Japan]. ... I do not believe in any 6-in.-gun cruisers." Admiral Bristol is a seadog trained to do diplomatic tricks. Many a time has he maintained U. S. relations with foreign statesmen...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh bought a 150-acre farm near Princeton, N. J., hard by the estate of his friend Gerard Barnes Lambert (yachts, planes, "Listerine...
...sirens on all the fire engine houses in St. Louis shrieked into a rain-streaked sky one morning last week by special order of Acting Mayor Neuman. A score of drenched employes of Curtiss-Robert-son Airplane Corp. paraded Lambert-St. Louis field, led by a small boy with a crude banner reading "Red and Obie did it again." Overhead the endurance-flying firm of "Red & Obie"-Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine-waved from their orange-&-yellow monoplane, which had just flown past the endurance record of 553 hr. 41 min. set last month by the Hunter Broth...
Alexander Lambert, 68, of Manhattan, "distinguished physician and teacher"; born, New York; degree from Columbia University 1888; president...
...yachts swept down on the starting line in a bunch, their sails snapping in the smart breeze. Weetamoe and Enterprise kept over toward the Long Island shore where the tide was beginning to ebb and help them along. The race was between them, but Vanitie decided it. Gerard Lambert, at Vanitie's wheel, is a member of the Weetamoe syndicate. Vanitie is Weetamoe's trial horse. So whenever he could in the long thrash on the wind, Lambert slipped up and took Enterprise's wind, letting Weetamoe slip ahead...