Word: josephus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Frank Arthur Daniels, son of Wilsonian Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels; and a Miss Ruth Aunspaugh; at Raleigh...
With well-worn evidence Messrs. Owen Josephus Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special U. S. counsel, conducted the prosecution before Justice William Hitz. Only novelty: they managed to introduce the illuminating fact that Fall, in a parallel case, had received some $269,000 in Liberty bonds from Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair who in return received the Teapot Dome lease...
...Evening Post [now with Scripps-Howard chain papers] made a statement that I was a disgruntled ex-British Naval Officer. I informed Mr. Tucker that I was not British but had served in the U. S. Navy both during the Spanish War and, according to my resignation signed by Josephus Daniels, in the last War which shows that I gave to the United States Government and Great Britain the free use of all my inventions. I then notified Mr. Tucker's editor-in-chief to please instruct his correspondent in Washington to be a little more accurate in his statements...
...Admiral Fiske suggested that torpedoes be shot from airplanes, was ignored, went ahead on his own, a year later took out a patent. Though the British adopted a similar device during the War, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels twice turned down the Fiske invention. In 1921 Rear-Admiral Fiske, retired, saw a photograph of a U. S. Navy plane dropping a torpedo. Said he: "It was clear to me that the Government had deliberately taken my patent...
...great parties has had a really first-class newsman at the head of its publicity. The newspaper connections of earlier Democratic press directors were largely nominal. In 1912, the Democracy's publicist was Thomas J. Pence, a political satellite of the late great Ollie James. His journalistic background was Josephus Daniels' Raleigh, N. C., News & Observer. In 1916 the post was better handled by Robert Wickliffe Woolley of the New York World, who for his services was made an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. In 1920, few were the reprintings of Democratic publicity prepared by William J. Cochran of the St. Louis...