Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost invariably someone seizes the opportunity to spoil a good story. In this case it was Josiah Quincy of the class of 1821 who tried to put an end to the tale about Jackson. Quincy was at the exercises in 1833 when the Harvard degree was conferred on the President of the United States, and the former's testimony of what took place on that occasion must be accepted at its value. Quincy says in his "Figures of the Past...
More and more shocking to Londoners has become the uproarious conduct of stockholders at annual meetings. Perhaps the most shocking scene of all occurred last week. Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, revered as one of the greatest of British economists, finished reading his report to stockholders of the London Midland & Scottish Railway of which he is chairman. Hisses and groans greeted his statement that the road, largest of British single enterprises, had finished the worst year in its history...
...That's not enough to buy a ham sandwich for every shareholder," retorted Sir Josiah...
...Dana (New York Sun). Or if the present-day lawmakers and tax experts are to be taken to task, it is yet true that New Hampshire, one of the 13 Original States (which-neighboring Maine & Vermont were not) has given the U. S. many a famed statesman. Among them: Josiah Bartlett, "Signer"; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln; Governor John A. Dix of New York; Governors Butler, Cox of Massachusetts ; Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks; U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Major General Leonard Wood...
...McNinch appointment precipitated a great deal of senatorial controversy as to just what constitutes a Democrat. Five Democratic members of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee disapproved Appointee McNinch's Democracy, voted against recommending his confirmation to the Senate. North Carolina's two Senators and its Senator-elect Josiah W. Bailey went through a characteristic series of molecular reunions and dissolutions on the question. Senator-elect Bailey, a regular Democrat, bitterly opposed the appointment before the Committee: "When the President gives a Democratic appointment to a man who has supported him the conclusion is that the President is using...