Word: josiah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...JOSIAH W. BAILEY...
Choicest anti-Government epithets came from Colonel Josiah C. Wedgwood of Newcastle-under-Lyme, the great potter's great-great-great-grandson. Colonel Wedgwood, "last of the great individualists," is a igth-Century fighting liberal, so independent that he would not even join the Independent Labor Party. Highlights of his long Parliamentary career include opposition to entrance into the World War and the rallying of a Parliamentary faction to support King Edward VIII in the Wallis Warfield Simpson crisis (". . . an insult to the United States"). Colonel Wedgwood's big heart, like that of his ancestor who backed...
Susanna made the Lyric Theatre's repertory because a Fosterphile, Josiah Kirby Lilly of the Indianapolis druggist Lillys, had backed it to the tune of $50,000. Last week, just about the time the mutual backscratching was over, the Lyric Theatre noticed it had three flops on its hands. It closed its season after a dozen performances, announced it would send The Devil on the road in the autumn, open a second season with some new tries...
...only four of his eight elections have Republicans bothered to nominate a candidate against him. Patronage is therefore unimportant to him. He has not pressed for places on important committees. He turned down the $15,000, 14-year job of Comptroller General. In 1936 he declined to contest for Josiah Bailey's Senate seat, which he might easily have won, because he likes Joe Bailey. Over his colleagues in Congress, as over his constituents, he has developed a hold based on respect and confidence. Aged 49, he regards John Nance Garner as "a second daddy." For all 14 years...
...speech over, President Marsh asked all B. U. boys who were beneficiaries of Hayden scholarship funds to rise. To Josiah Hayden's great happiness, up jumped...