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...Josiah Warner Potter, of Milwaukee...
Elections. The committee then listened to Josiah Marvel, a swarthy, elderly country gentleman from Delaware. Mr. Marvel said that Delaware offered to the Democracy a manager who could think the way average Americans think from trolley conductors to potent capitalists. He nominated John Jacob Raskob of Delaware for chairman of the committee. Mr. Raskob was unanimously elected. The committee elected other officers as follows...
...School Faculty the student body comes in contact with the leading law teachers of the country, but it is only occasionally that they have the opportunity of hearing men of equal prominence in practice. This year the Society brought Silas H. Strawn, president of the American Bar Association, and Josiah Marvel, chairman of the Executive Council of the Law School. The appreciation of the student body for this service was shown by the fact that the lecture halls were filled each time, the total attendance being about...
John Wilson Snook (warden of the Atlanta penitentiary) selected from his flock a new chauffeur-Josiah Kirby, famed swindler of Cleveland, Ohio, who is serving a seven-year term for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Mr. Kirby's Cleveland Discount Co. had dealt in mischievous mortgages to the extent of more than...
...Josiah Royce held the Alford Professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Poetry at Harvard between 1914 and 1916. Royce was a member of the American Academy, and the American Philosophical Society...