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...Confirmed the appointment to the Supreme Court of Owen Josephus Roberts of Philadelphia...
...from 13 to 16; decision to abolish "serve him'' and "obey him." from the marriage service; invention of a new sin for ministers ("gross impudence and high unministerial conduct"). But of more immediate interest to the conference was the tussle between Bishop James Cannon Jr. of Virginia and Layman Josephus Daniels...
...President Hoover wanted to flay the Senate publicly for its treatment of his nominee. Wise political heads dissuaded him. Within two days he had decided upon a new man for the Supreme Court vacancy and, as nominee No. 91, sent to the Senate for confirmation the name of Owen Josephus Roberts of Philadelphia...
...edited journalism gradually passed away. Membership in the organization is gained by presenting a copy of a nonprofessional, personally published paper. Among its membership: Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, Representative James Montgomery Beck of Pennsylvania, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the late Charles Scribner, Thomas Alva Edison, Josephus Daniels, President Frank Brett Noyes of the A. P., U. S.-born Harry Gordon Selfridge, London store owner...
...loud laughter. Senator Robinson asked Mr. Raskob if he did not take his Democratic chairmanship to help fight Prohibition. Cried Senator Walsh: "Don't answer that question! Don't answer it!" Senator Robinson tried to build up an "important point" by revealing the anti-Raskobism of North Carolina's Josephus Daniels, oldtime Democrat, onetime Secretary of the Navy. When Senator Robinson was forced to abandon this line due to his ignorance of Mr. Daniels' career, spectators whooped with derision. Senator Caraway, chairman of the committee and as Dry a Democrat as Mr. Daniels, remarked: "Don't laugh, good people. This...