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Thus in true authoritarian style did Mexico's Boss Plutarco Elias Calles orate in Guadalajara last month. Knowing the violent anticlericalism of Mexico's Revolutionary Government, not even Roman Catholics could be surprised. But alert Catholic priests got hopping mad when they learned that U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels had later got up before a Mexican Seminar and orated as follows...
Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court LL.D...
...light-fingered romancer, Author Graves has dug carefully into a mine of authorities (Suetonius, Tacitus, Dio Cassius, Josephus, scores of others) for the outline and main incidents of his story. His good and scholarly friend Aircraftman T. E. Shaw (T. E. Lawrence) scanned the narrative for anachronisms, found none. Though I, Claudius abounds in murderous incidents, scandalous anecdotes. Author Graves can in almost every case quote classical scripture as his authority. Says he: "There is no main incident in the book...
...Commanders-in-Chief, most Presidents run the Navy only nominally, mak-ing appointments and issuing orders only as their Secretaries of the Navy may require. President Roosevelt, however, runs the Navy in fact. At first his election was viewed by the Navy with alarm. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels came close to wrecking the service's esprit and morale with his politics and naval men recalled that Assistant Secretary Roosevelt had also played a rattling good political game. He is wiser now than he was 14 years ago, and his naval building program, undertaken after the Navy...
...reveal the face and figure of the little boy's grandfather - William Jennings Bryan, posed in bronze as if about to speak to the drenched gathering below. It was not Bryan's voice that rang through the murky air, but the voice of his onetime friend, Josephus Daniels, who began four years ago raising funds for the statue. Day before Mr. Daniels had arrived from his far-off post as Ambassador in Mexico City, partly to visit at the White House, partly to bring the text of the New Mexican Claims agreements but mostly to speak in praise...