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...Confirmed Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice of the U. S., Owen Josephus Roberts as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...over the Caribbean horizon and, though no enemy warship was thought to be in the vicinity, she never was heard from again, by wireless or otherwise. Searching craft found no trace of wreckage. Of the 293 people aboard, no body was ever recovered. Said Wartime Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels in his report that year: "There has been no more baffling mystery in the annals of the Navy...
...Owen Josephus Roberts, Supreme Court Justice ... LL.D...
...Josephus Daniels, most famed accuser of the Bishop, issued a last castigation: "The quality of mercy is not strained. It cdroppeth like the gentle rain from Heaven alike upon erring Bishop and erring Congoan.* ... It is the preaching of Methodists that confession of sin, followed by repentance and promise to sin no more, should meet with clemency and forgiveness. It was this attitude and this alone that stayed the trial of Bishop Cannon. Many laymen did not share the feeling of the preachers, because the statement of repentance and pledge to reform did not come until after a trial...
Later the conference re-elected Bishop Cannon, despite considerable animadversion, to the board of Temperance and Social Service. Commented Josephus Daniels: "... A death blow to Prohibition...