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...letter was in answer to another that began: "Dear Franklin." Shrewd, spry old Diplomat Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy during World War I when Franklin Roosevelt was his assistant, had just resigned as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. He had held that pesky post for eight long years. Of his own accord, he had decided to give it up, retire to his native North Carolina...
...Heel Editor. An oldfashioned, liberal statesman is Josephus Daniels. Born in the second year of the Civil War, he grew up in the age of trust-busting and reform, became a disciple of William Jennings Bryan. As owner and editor of the Raleigh News & Observer, he fought the railroads, fought the power companies, feuded with the tobacco barons who made North Carolina rich...
Through his friendship with Bryan, Editor Daniels met Woodrow Wilson, became his devoted follower. When Wilson moved into the White House, Josephus Daniels became Secretary of the Navy. An ardent Dry, he prohibited liquor on board Navy ships. He outraged officers by shaking hands with seamen. He tried to make sailors wear pajamas. In his black string tie and his flat-brimmed, North Carolina planter's hat, he was a walking affront to the ramrod dignity of the admirals...
...pages of this mammoth document were numerous references to Mexico's friendly relations with the U.S., Mexico's willingness to welcome foreign capital, Mexico's place in Hemisphere defense. But what made foreign diplomats in the gallery, including U.S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, sit up and listen was Manuel Camacho's hint that a comprehensive economic agreement may soon be reached between the U.S. and Mexico...
...unit might never have got started had not F. Trubee Davison persuaded his reluctant father, able Harry Davison, a Morgan partner, soon to do a classic job organizing the American Red Cross for the war. Young Davison went to Washington, got a vague "God bless you!" from Josephus Daniels, got a practical letter of encouragement from Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt. The First Yale Unit went ahead, while their fathers and friends put up the money for training (flying lessons then cost $1 a minute), bought them planes to train...