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...Could detect no trace of conscious irony or sarcasm in a remarkable defense of U. S. films by that peppery late Victorian, Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, M. P. When a member casually remarked that U. S. films should be barred from England because so many of them are indecent, Colonel Wedgwood leaped up and shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they...
...tough job for the President to give a job to William Josiah Tilson, brother of House Floor Leader John Q. Tilson of Connecticut. Last spring the President nominated him as Judge in a newly created Federal district in Georgia, but withdrew his name when the Senate showed hostility. When the long session adjourned, the President gave him a recess appointment. In the short session the President repeated this performance and last week presented Mr. Tilson with a second recess appointment. Senators were vexed. Said Senator Harris of Georgia: "If he [the President] can withdraw appointments from confirmation and make recess...
Clarence Dillon, investment banker: "Mortgage Bond Salesman Josiah Kirby (now in Atlanta penitentiary) used to hire special trains to picnic his salesmen. Last week 700 employes and officials (all male) of the National Cash Register Co., which I bought a year ago, (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926) sailed for Havana on the Holland-American liner Volendam, chartered especially for them...
...narrow classical program which he pursued in common with all boys of the Latin School, he had lessons in carpentry and wood turning which his father, whose ideas about education were as President Eliot says, "much in advance of his times," was at pains to secure for him. Although Josiah Quincy had introduced into Harvard College a certain measure of election, this had largely disappeared under the Presidency of Jared Sparks, by 1849, when President Eliot entered the College. He was enabled to give up Greek and specialize in mathematics during his Senior year, and he also "enjoyed special privileges...
Colonel Huger of South Carolina tells the story of his attempt at rescuing Lafayette from prison in Austria. Daniel Webster orates, in public and at home. Andrew Jackson bristles into Boston. William Ellery Channing, founder of Unitarianism, preaches a sermon. John Quincy Adams and Josiah Quincy visit Joseph Smith, "the bourgeois Mohammed," at muddy Nauvpo, 111., being privileged to dispute with him in a strange dormitory and to view the prophet's dubious Pharaoh mummies and Mosaic manuscripts, (being told upon leaving, that it is customary to pay old Mother Smith $L25 for this honor...