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...Mexico last week Ambassador Josephus Daniels was travelling along when in time's nick a section hand near Monterey discovered a "sun kink" on the track-a rail buckled by the heat. The Daniels train, guarded by six detectives and squads of soldiers, was held 30 minutes while a new rail was laid. Ambassador Daniels reached Mexico City without mishap...
...Because Josephus Daniels, genial publisher of the Raleigh (N. C.) News & Observer, was Secretary of the U. S. Navy when that navy bombarded Veracruz in 1914, loud have been the Mexican murmurings against his appointment as Ambassador to Mexico. The murmurings were so loud last week that Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Puig Casauranc felt called upon to deny officially that the appointment of Publisher Daniels was in any way displeasing to the Mexican Government...
...Josephus Daniels, the new President's Wartime chief in the Navy Department, was reported to have two appointment choices. He could either remain at home and head the proposed Bureau of Transportation (rail, air & water), or he could represent the Administration in Mexico. He chose Mexico...
...Washington last week broad-browed U. S. Supreme Court Justice Owen Josephus Roberts (Teapot Dome prosecutor) ruled finally as umpire on the Black Tom and Kingsland cases, threw out the lemon juice evidence, vindicated Germany once & for all, thus saved the Fatherland more than $40,000,000 in U. S. claims. Justice Roberts, whose hand shook as he read his verdict, said that some of the evidence against Germany seemed to have been "fraudulently prepared...
...Josephus Daniels began a private campaign to change the Democratic party emblem by printing a crowing rooster on the front page of his Raleigh. N. C. News and Observer. Observed he: "The rooster has ten times more style and beauty and clarion call than the donkey...