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Forester takes his first American hero from a heroic era of U.S. sea power-the days of Perry, John Paul Jones and Old Ironsides. Captain Josiah Peabody, commander of the U.S. frigate Delaware in the War of 1812, rather strongly suggests Gary Cooper...
...Died. Josiah Baron Stamp, 60, chief economic adviser to the British Government, chairman of the great London, Midland and Scottish Railway, director of the Bank of England, member of the 1924 Dawes Reparations Commission, leading pre-war advocate of German appeasement; when bombs demolished his house in London...
Beetle-browed Laborite Josiah Wedgwood, direct descendant of the famed potter, politely observed that Sunday theaters were unnecessary since soldiers and their girls "would infinitely prefer the dusk and sentiment of the cinema, where they could hold each other's hands...
...Nature and Destiny of Man was prepared for the famed Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, which only four other Americans have been invited to deliver in 54 years - William James, Josiah Royce, John Dewey and William Ernest Hocking...
Conservative Senator Josiah William Bailey of North Carolina, who has been 99% against the Administration except when campaigning for reelection, now recanted his onetime isolationism, ate his words with such solemn gusto that a hushed, impressed Senate clustered around his desk so as not to miss a syllable...