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...Their common ancestors are Richard and Hepsibah Ford Lyman of Northampton, Mass., whose daughter, in 1662, married Josiah Dewey, great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of Candidate Dewey. The Lymans' son was the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Katharine Robbins Lyman, who married Warren Delano, maternal grandfather of the President. *When he left the U.S. in 1935, Lindbergh first rented an out-of-the-way 500-year-old house in Sevenoaks, Kent County, England, later bought the barren, out-of-the-way Breton isle of Illiec, lived there for six months near his great & good friend, Scientist Alexis...
...McLaughlin suggested that there might be great fear on the part of "a man going into service and leaving his dog behind." The medical students laughed. Dr. Josiah John Moore, president of Chicago's Medical Society, observed: "A parade of human beings who have been saved from diseases by work done on dogs . . . would take a week ... to pass down Michigan Avenue." Dr. Moore was then beset by hecklers. Up spoke Dr. Italo Frederick Volini, professor of medicine at Loyola University Medical School: "If this is a question of suffering and needless pain, do ... the ladies who have come...
...William Thomas Manning, 77 and Episcopal Bishop of New York since 1921, set his stern, septuagenarian face, and flatly refused to get off his episcopal throne. Heartened, Buffalo's Bishop Cam eron Josiah Davis, a comparative young ster of 70, said he would not budge either. The trouble started last October, when the Episcopal Church's Triennial General Convention (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943) ruled that bishops must retire at the age of 72. The convention also resolved that this rule was "binding upon the present members of the House [of Bishops...
...independent voters and thinkers; neither has much influence on the floor. Montana's Burt Wheeler, diehard Roosevelt hater, is a formidable individual fighter. But the real leaders are Kentucky's Barkley, Georgia's Walter F. George, Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, Alabama's John Bankhead, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar and Texas' Tom Connally. These are all veterans who feel that the deference due their long Party service has been withheld by Franklin Roosevelt and his brain-trusters. All are men of the Old South, which has been...
Three Southern Democrats rose up in the Senate to reply, in an extraordinary spate of oratory-Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, South Carolina's Cotton Ed Smith (see p. 14). They tore Joe Guffey to shreds, came close to out-&-out denunciation of Mr. Roosevelt. Senators Bailey and Smith talked threateningly about a new Southern Democratic Party...