Word: josephus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweet But Very Sad." He was an impatient, young (32) Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He wrote Babs: "These dear good people like W.J.B. [Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan] and J.D. [Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels] have about as much conception of what a general European war means as Elliott has of higher mathematics." Later: ' I am running the real work, although Josephus is here. He is bewildered by it all, very sweet but very...
...three years later, when he resigned from the Navy Department to accept his party's nomination (and go down to defeat) as running mate to presidential candidate James M. Cox, it was a mellower F.D.R. who wrote old Josephus Daniels: "You have taught me so wisely and kept my feet on the ground when I was about to skyrocket...
...will, read last week, the late Publisher Josephus Daniels left his Raleigh News & Observer to his family. He also left some directions on how he hoped the paper would...
...Died. Josephus Daniels, 85, "Tar Heel Editor," World War I Secretary of the Navy (his Assistant Secretary: young Franklin D. Roosevelt), onetime (1933-41) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico; of pneumonia; in Raleigh, N.C. Secretary Daniels disturbed Navy traditionalists, outlawed liquor on Navy vessels (a, rule still in force), took pride in the Navy's record of transporting all U.S. troops to Europe without a casualty. A professional journalist from the age of 18 (he became editor of the Raleigh News and Observer in 1894), string-tied Editor Daniels was a folksy foe of Republicans, booze and vested interests, championed...
Period Sets. Sixty-three-year-old Lion Feuchtwanger is a professional hand at this and a capable one. Writing in pre-Hitler Germany, he used medieval material in The Ugly Duchess, 18th Century Germany in Power (his first U.S. success), 1st Century Rome in his Josephus trilogy. He has worked on Proud Destiny in Santa Monica, where he settled after fleeing Europe in 1940, and the novel smells faintly of the Hollywood atmosphere in which it was composed. The period sets are painstaking, the main characters are photogenic. With no strain on his attention, the reader can savor from...