Word: josephus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual delegates, a small portion of the whole number present, assembled in a great hall filled with State standards, in the best political convention style. Messages were read from Rear Admiral Sims, from Charles P. Donnelly (President of the Northern Pacific Railway), Lord Byng (Governor General of Canada), Josephus Daniels, General Diaz of Italy, Admiral Beatty of England, General Pershing, Major General Lejeune, Secretary Weeks, Secretary Wilbur, Field Marshal Haig, Admiral Koontz, Georges Clemenceau, Newton D. Baker, Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman...
...Albany, N. Y., one Hector Sin- clair, of Eldorado, Kan., hurried into a second-hand bookstore. He had heard that the vendor possessed a copy of a work for which he had searched for over 50 years-the writings of the Jewish historian, Josephus. Hector paid $2.50, opened his book, beheld his own name on the flyleaf, recognized the volume as one he had lost...
...soon found out what it meant to be a candidate. First, the deluge of the press. Then the deluge of supporters-the delegate from Porto Rico who had voted for Davis 33 times in San Francisco, and 103 times in Manhattan, etc. Soon the magnates of the party descended -Josephus Daniels, Pat Harrison, Governor Ritchie. Then the telegrams-from A. Mitchell Palmer, from 'Senator McKellar, from General Bliss, from Mr. Associate Justice Butler...
...ballot: McAdoo 488½ Smith 336½ Davis of West Virginia 72½ Underwood 46½ Baker 57; Glass 26; Governor Bryan 3; Robinson 21; Ritchie 16½ Saulsbury 6; Owen 2; Walsh of Montana 1; Will Rogers 1; M. A. Coolidge ½ (or perhaps the trailers at the end might be Senator Copeland, Josephus Daniels, the Mayor of New Orleans, of Chicago or of Montpelier). No one having received the required number of votes, the Secretary will call the roll for the nth ballot...
...mentioned seven: Dr. A. A. Murphree, President of the University of Florida; Josephus Daniels; Senator Joseph T. Robinson; Senator Samuel Ralston; ex-Secretary of Agriculture Edwin T. Meredith; his own brother, Charles W. Bryan, Governor of Nebraska; William G. McAdoo. His speech lacked the old-time wonder-working power. The crowd was largely hostile; several times delegates interrupted. After every two or three sentences there was applause or hisses, cheers or heckling ?mostly the latter. Shortly after his time expired, Mr. Bryan gave up. As a political speech, his effort was inglorious...