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...aristocratic Philadelphia suburb of Germantown last week went Mr. Justice Owen Josephus Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court, Presiding Bishop James DeWolf Perry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, and hundreds of their oldtime schoolmates at Germantown Academy. All one afternoon Germantown's "old boys" sat on the school grounds, watched a pageant of the Academy's 175-year history. Rightly they felt it a rare thing for a U. S. school to reach...
...which played two or three games a week, won the championship of the South, claimed the championship of the world. Player Biggs took to the law at Oxford, N. C., subsequently sat for four years on the State bench. During the Wilson Administration, his fellow North Carolinian, Josephus Daniels, got him a job as Assistant Attorney General. A year later Lawyer Biggs retired to private practice in North Carolina, made a great success as an eloquent pleader before small-town juries. When Roosevelt was elected, Mr. Biggs aspired to be Solicitor General but, unlike many another...
...stories, three were included in Author Feuchtwanger's lengthy novel, Success (1930); none was written later than seven years ago. Though not hot off the griddle, they are nevertheless served up with such neatness and dispatch that their taste is still fresh. Exile Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess, Josephus) thus explains their publication: "When at the beginning of 1933 my home in Berlin was searched by the National Socialists and nearly all my manuscripts, as well as those entrusted to me by friends in other countries, were destroyed, I thought the time had come to collect those...
Even less potentially troublesome are the Mexican Ambassador's other problems. Last month Mexico paid the first $500,000 of an agreed $7,000,000 to settle U. S. claims for life and property destroyed in the chaotic years 1910-20. Old Ambassador Josephus Daniels has solidly entrenched himself with Mexican officials by his seeming sympathy with their Six-Year Plan. Cautious and tentative have been Mexican moves against foreign capital (TIME, Feb. 25). Remembering the shady methods employed by some U. S. citizens in acquiring Mexican lands, the State Department is in no hurry to make trouble about...
...Daniels is a consummate jackass." So cried Monsignor Hugh L. Lamb, Chancellor of the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, in a speech about U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels. "Daniels easily succumbed to the flattery of Plutarco Calles, the power in Mexico, who is known as the God-hater. He was wined and dined and private trains were placed at his disposal. . . . He has publicly expressed approval of the Socialistic and Communistic educational program...