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STANDARD OIL OF CALIFORNIA: Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury, President...
...Josephus Daniels, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of the Navy, editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer, the rival Raleigh Times last week posed a question that has intrigued North Carolinians for many a month; it asked him bluntly whether he is "steering his personal ambition toward the berth of Vice President to the present Governor of New York...
Following close upon the heels of these two ladies come all the people of the court. Shakespeare played by Franklin F. Dexter '28 and Raleigh, portrayed by Donald Murchie '28, with veiled plots and boastful words; Sir Hudson Essex A. S. Bigelow '29, fully equipped, including spare, the handsome here of manly men and well-turned limb, who breaks hearts with a glance; Lady Evelyn, M. B. Wells '28 his true love and lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth, who continually interrupts the love making of this amourous couple. And shshsh! the villain, Ramon Pedro Jose etc, etc, etc, acted...
...neglected law practice; behind him he left the days when he was overlord of mails, telephone and telegraph, when cables could be confiscated at his command. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), no longer master of Admirals, went back to the sleepy North Carolina town of Raleigh. There he shifted from cutaway to a well-worn coat, settled down to the life of a small-town editor that he had known from his 18th year. Newton Diehl Baker, Secretary of War (1916-21), that short, slim, dark man whom Democrats call the "fighting pacifist" is too good...
Last week Wilson's Cabinet seemed all at once to emerge from the shadows. From his engrossing paper, the Raleigh News and Observer, Josephus Daniels came, an infectious farmer-boy grin on hia gentle face, his thin unruly hair waving more thinly than of yore. In Washington to attentive audiences he propounded Democratic doctrine while he told them how to make an enlightened choice of a Presidential nominee. He said: "Fashions change in candidates as in dress. It is not probable we will go back to the Jefferson knee breeches or to Jackson in his fighting clothes...