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Died. Owen Josephus Roberts, 80, broad-shouldered, broad-gauged Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1930-45) who gained a reputation as the court's "swing man" by voting independently of either liberal or conservative factions in the pre-Roosevelt court, later shifted to a more conservative position under the New Deal; of a heart attack; at his home near Phoenixville, Pa. Plainspoken, scholarly Owen Roberts won fame as prosecutor in the 1924 Teapot Dome scandal, was named to the high court by Herbert Hoover, eventually became the sole non-Roosevelt appointee. A lifelong Republican and anti-isolationist...
Newsman Daniel went to work for Josephus Daniels' Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer after graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1933, switched in 1937 to the Associated Press in New York, later reported for A.P. in Switzerland and London. He joined the Times staff in 1944, went into Belgium and Germany with the First Army. Now on home leave from Bonn, Cliff Daniel is boning up on Russian history and language before taking over his next...
...nation lies defenseless, a Gulliver in Lilliput with Harry Truman as the second most Lilliputian of them all and Johnson a midget among them. We have only four combat airplanes, two tanks (one being Johnson himself), five six-star generals and a converted armored yawl, once the property of Josephus Daniels...
...Sweet But Very Sad." He was an impatient, young (32) Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He wrote Babs: "These dear good people like W.J.B. [Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan] and J.D. [Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels] have about as much conception of what a general European war means as Elliott has of higher mathematics." Later: ' I am running the real work, although Josephus is here. He is bewildered by it all, very sweet but very...
...three years later, when he resigned from the Navy Department to accept his party's nomination (and go down to defeat) as running mate to presidential candidate James M. Cox, it was a mellower F.D.R. who wrote old Josephus Daniels: "You have taught me so wisely and kept my feet on the ground when I was about to skyrocket...