Word: josephus
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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MEXICO CITY--Ambassader Josephus Daniels announced today that he expects to retire from his post...
...life Roosevelt had only once taken orders from a superior: when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Landlubber Josephus Daniels. But that was the great formative period of his life. It was then that he had discovered his moving principle: action. Do something. If that fails, do something else. Always action; inaction is conservatism, stagnation, unAmerican. Biographer Ernest Lindley described his as "the type of mind to which little is impossible and nothing inevitable." To be a great President he would have to try and try again for national unity of purpose, letting disagreements over details, methods, means...
...peasants. In the Chamber's jampacked diplomatic gallery German Minister Baron Rüdt von Collenberg-Bödigheim listened with Teutonic impassiveness as other speakers swung into attacks on totalitarianism. Thinner-skinned Italian Minister Count Alberto Marchetti di Muriaglio frowned, grimaced, twitched. Behind them U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, knowing no Spanish, beamed with vacuous amiability. There was not much clarification in the session, although it was Cárdenas' farewell address to his troubled nation. And in farewell he placed his official blessing on General Manuel Avila Camacho as his successor...
...General Alfredo Lezama, were arrested. Almazán-istas were dismissed from key posts in the telegraph, radio and telephone services. Political circles buzzed over a rumor that General Francisco J. Mugica, close personal friend of General Almazán, had been invited by U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels for a long conversation. General Mugica had been prominently mentioned as a compromise President to break the present deadlock...
...Confederation of Mexican Labor called on all its subsidiary labor organizations to make a fuss against "Yankee imperialism." Even supporters of the anti-Cárdenas Presidential candidate, General Juan Andreu Almazan, declared for publication they would not oppose whatever decision the President made. U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels got angry telephone calls denouncing the State Department...