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...sent his budget to the Capitol telling Congress all he cared to tell about U. S. finances to the end of fiscal 1937. Last week, while the Senate Finance Committee was considering the Soldiers' Bonus (see above), some of its members, headed by North Carolina's supercilious Josiah William Bailey, decided they ought to hear what Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau would have to say about the effect of paying the Bonus on U. S. finances...
...Josiah Royce (1855-1916) famed Harvard professor, whose books are used as texts in many an elementary philosophy course...
...Bulletin throws off the garment of gloom for the moment and indulges in a little humor over the future opening of a similar box by President Conant on September 8, 1936, which was sealed by President Josiah Quincy...
...Austin, RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones, heard himself extolled for three hours as Texas' First Citizen, saw his portrait (see cut) unveiled amid cheers of one Governor, six ex-Governors, hundreds of Texas bigwigs. Telegrams were read from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, North Carolina's Senator Josiah W. Bailey, who hinted to Chairman Jones: "Maybe in 1940 we'll be looking to you to lead our Party to victory...
President. Last year at Aberdeen, Sir Josiah Stamp, voluble economist, director of the Bank of England, chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, engaged in a spirited, if indirect, debate with Sir James Jeans. Sir Josiah contended in effect that science was causing too much technological unemployment, had better take a holiday (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). This year at Norwich the same Sir Josiah was elected president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for the coming year. Sir Josiah promptly proved that this honor had not changed him in the slightest by delivering a discourse which...