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...18th Field Artillery, Lieut. Colonel Kernan once taught languages at Georgia Tech, medieval philosophy at Harvard, was literary executor to late, great Harvard Philosopher Josiah Royce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colonel Blunt | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Swan will take the University team to Yale alone this year. Other Yardlings who entered the 'competition were Warren Burroughs, Sumner Feldberg, Kenneth Moller, and Josiah Richmond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swan Appointed Yardling Hockey Manager For Year | 3/3/1942 | See Source »

...Russia surrenders, I doubt whether our resolution to hold out would endure for long," said Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, Labor M. P., in the House of Commons last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Debate Grows Warm | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...refer [TIME, July 28] to Colonel Josiah Wedgwood as a "china merchant" and "potter." In point of fact Colonel Wedgwood has never been actively connected with the family business. The reason is that the three brothers who owned the business between 1870 and 1890 drew up a partnership agreement which allowed each one to introduce only one son into the firm. Colonel Wedgwood's eldest brother was chosen for the honor, and the two younger sons were automatically excluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

This little book includes practically every important literary allusion that has ever been made to human freedom. These quotations, says Co-Editor Josiah Wedgwood (who last week was shushed by the British and sent home to Britain because he said unkind things about Isolationist Senator Wheeler), "furnish both sides of the Atlantic with Masonic passwords: quotations that will always be recognized by the elect." Among the great quotations the elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia; Byron's Sonnet on Chilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Variety of Freedoms | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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