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...Owen Josephus Roberts. The so-called "Swing Man" of the Supreme Court would, as a Republican candidate, be relatively impervious alike to New Dealers or conservatives. Fearless, relentless, 64, of greater physical and mental stamina than most U. S. leaders, he is also a practical farmer, has vast erudition, a natural oratorical voice trained to express sense rather than emotion, impressive presence, and no great desire to be President...
...Confederation of Mexican Labor called on all its subsidiary labor organizations to make a fuss against "Yankee imperialism." Even supporters of the anti-Cárdenas Presidential candidate, General Juan Andreu Almazan, declared for publication they would not oppose whatever decision the President made. U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels got angry telephone calls denouncing the State Department...
Though the Army reforms are accepted by the officer caste, Hore-Belisha's infringements on their sacred privileges are probably deeply resented nevertheless. Before the World War, Josephus Daniels, our Secretary of the Navy then, "vigorously democratized" the naval service. Because of this he was never popular with the Annapolis crowd, who considered him a small-time busy demagogue-and political crank. A man promoted from the ranks was stigmatized as a "mustang." Whenever naval officers gathered in a French cafe during the War, a popular song...
...Josephus Daniels is a goose...
...Josephus Daniels speaks his long piece honestly and guilelessly in the scrawny indigenous jargon of his trade in his time, and his naivete serves to reveal truths subtler than he suspects. A man who can pay tribute to his wife as "the best helpmeet with which man was ever blessed," who can affectionately reprint his own editorials and funny stories, who can, in the Southern journalist's equivalent of Arthur Kober, refer to a "floundered" submarine, speaks from the photographic heart of what his time and environment have made him, and is incapable of going wrong. Even such...