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...time the U.S. Supreme Court had wound up its recent session, Justice Owen Josephus Roberts had written 21 majority opinions - and 53 vigorous and acid dissents. Also, he had completed 15 years of service and had passed the age of 70, when Federal judges may retire. Last week, as he got ready for a vacation on his farm near Chester Springs, Pa., Mr. Justice Roberts resigned...
...opposition had sent up, as its most eloquent expert, former Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels, still spry at 83. His chief argument: the move to peacetime conscription was "pumped-up propaganda," based on false premises-fear, cynicism and imperialism...
...Army mission to Europe, cleaned out the White House desk he has used for twelve years in the hot-corner job as Franklin Roosevelt's press relations secretary, turned it over to Jonathan Daniels, North Carolina newsman and author, son of World War I's Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels. Early will fill in as the Presidential appointment secretary until the late Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson can be replaced. By June 1 he hopes to have a better-paying private job he has still to find ("I'm wide open...
...President James Knox Polk, 1818; Bandmaster James Kern ("Kay") Kyser, '28; Author Thomas Wolfe, '20 (the University is the "Old Catawba" of his Look Homeward Angel); Statesman Josephus Daniels, '85; Journalist Jonathan Worth Daniels...
...October 1917, he found out what his hands were for. He began to fly for the Army, first as an enlisted cadet in the Signal Corps, then as a second lieutenant and instructor. He also, in 1917, married Josephine ("Jo") Daniels (no kin to Josephus), whose hair has turned white in some 25 years with Jimmy Doolittle. Devoted Jo Doolittle had a good deal to do with making Jimmy Doolittle the foremost U.S. airman of World...