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WILLIAM COLLINS WHITNEY was Secretary of the Navy, and not Gideon Welles (Civil War) or Josephus Daniels (World...
Further sympathy for the Navy's embarrassment was deduced by observers when they saw onetime (1913-21) Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels going in to call on Secretary Wilbur. Mr. Daniels might well have commiserated Mr. Wilbur for there was a "Magruder" during Mr. Daniels' régime-bristly Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims...
...Josephus Daniels, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of the Navy, editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer, the rival Raleigh Times last week posed a question that has intrigued North Carolinians for many a month; it asked him bluntly whether he is "steering his personal ambition toward the berth of Vice President to the present Governor of New York...
...they had been so glamorously summoned. Mild-mannered Albert Sidney Burleson, Postmaster General (1913-21) was off to Austin, Tex., to build up & neglected law practice; behind him he left the days when he was overlord of mails, telephone and telegraph, when cables could be confiscated at his command. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), no longer master of Admirals, went back to the sleepy North Carolina town of Raleigh. There he shifted from cutaway to a well-worn coat, settled down to the life of a small-town editor that he had known from his 18th year...
Last week Wilson's Cabinet seemed all at once to emerge from the shadows. From his engrossing paper, the Raleigh News and Observer, Josephus Daniels came, an infectious farmer-boy grin on hia gentle face, his thin unruly hair waving more thinly than of yore. In Washington to attentive audiences he propounded Democratic doctrine while he told them how to make an enlightened choice of a Presidential nominee. He said: "Fashions change in candidates as in dress. It is not probable we will go back to the Jefferson knee breeches or to Jackson in his fighting clothes...