Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate floor, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey used the immediate necessity of dealing with taxation as grounds for postponing consideration of antilynching. Said he of the undistributed profits tax, "Let's repeal it today. . . . Even the President says it isn't working. ..." Aware that any plan to do anything about taxation must originate in the House, enthusiastic Senator Bailey proposed that the Senate adopt a resolution "to repeal this tax just as soon as we get something from the House to which we can attach a repealer...
Mathew Town, largest island village. Armed natives blamed Josiah Erickson of Swampscott, Mass., co-owner of Inagua's $500,000 salt factory, for the issuance of the order. They stormed the Erickson West Indies store, killed one employe, then roamed the island searching for other "Yankees." The enraged natives fired the store, radio station, salt buildings, the Commissioner's residence, the warehouse. Erickson, four other American residents, Commissioner Fields, eight Negroes grabbed rifles, tear-gas guns, cartridges, shot their way clear to the launch...
...Died. Josiah Alexander Van Orsdel, 76, Associate Justice of the U. S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia; in Great Barrington, Mass...
...Come on Tom, the King has something for you!" Cried Sir Josiah Stamp, Chairman of the road (London, Midland & Scottish) to Engineer Clarke who whipped off his overalls, slipped on a clean pair, vigorously wiped his boots and climbed down to receive from His Majesty the medal of the Order of the British Empire, for Meritorious Service...
...James J. Hill's lawyer, John G. Johnson (left), arguing the famed Northern Securities case before Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller and the Court, January 1904. (Justices from left to right are: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Henry Billings Brown, John Marshall Harlan, Chief Justice Fuller, David Josiah Brewer, Edward Douglass White, Joseph McKenna, William Rufus Day.) Northern Securities Co. had been organized to control the securities of Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railways. By a 5-to-4 decision, the holding company was found in restraint of trade, its control of the two railroads was disestablished. Last...