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...person had often moved to a new home or was not in. One old man came to the door and eyed the visitor with a sea going against. Asked it he were Josephus Tootle he replied "Oi'm Curley man!" He had not corked up the door sufficiently with his legs, unfortunately, and before this enlightening interview had ended, 26 assorted children and cats had flowed through the openings and down the steps. They dissolved in to the atmosphere as quickly as they had come and the patriarch speak majestically "Dose my children. Dey Curley men, too," and shut...
...foreign properties in Mexico without compensation. Every Mexican remembers the red light which President Woodrow Wilson had flashed on April 21, 1914 from the fighting top of the U. S. S. Arkansas. This signal started the bombardment of Veracruz by ships of U. S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and within a few months unacceptable President Huerta was forced to resign...
Last week's figurative green light was flashed by Josephus Daniels, now U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and an admiring friend of New Dealer Cardenas. The envoy of an unnamed third State called on Ambassador Daniels, warned him that President Cardenas was almost sure to make a speech rejecting the note in which Secretary Hull recently demanded immediate compensation for the seized properties, and offered to join the U. S. Ambassador in snubbing Orator Cardenas by staying away from his speech. Mr. Daniels refused this offer, genially let it be known that, since he understands hardly a word...
Died. Captain Samuel A'Court Ashe. 97, onetime (1879-94) publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer (now owned by Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels), Confederate veteran who always frowned when the word "Yankee" was used in his presence; of old age; in Raleigh...
...Call me Mr. Roberts,"* said Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Owen Josephus Roberts, a democratic Republican, to his steward as he sailed for Europe on the S. S. Statendam...