Daniels
Daniels names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Daniels JOSEPHUS, an American public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOSEPHUS, an American public official, born in 1862 in Washington, con, N. C. He became, in 1880, editor of the "Advance," a newspaper of Wilson, JOSEPHUS DANIELS N. C. Although he studied law and was admitted to the bar he never practiced that profession, preferring newspaper work. In 1885 he became editor of the "State Chronicle" of Raleigh and in 1894 united this newspaper with another and published it as the "News and Observer." From 1887 to 1893 he was State printer. From 1895 to 1912 he was prominent in National and State politics as a Bryan Democrat and took a considerable part in the election of Wilson to the presidency in 1912. In March of the next year he received the appointment of Secretary of the Navy. He gained prominence by his order forbidding officers to have liquor aboard their vessels and by banning the use of liquor by the officers and men of the navy. He also advocated government manufacture of armor and munitions. During the war with Germany the navy of the United States did its work effectively, and this was due largely to the efforts of Secretary Daniels. A controversy between him and Admiral Sims, as a result of the latter's criticism of navy administration during the war was followed by a Senatorial investigation in 1920.
Daniels WINTHROP MORE, an American official and economist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WINTHROP MORE, an American official and economist, born in Dayton, O., in 1867. He graduated from Princeton in 1888. After studying in Germany, he became professor of political economy in Princeton in 1892, serving until 1911. In the latter year he was appointed a member of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners of New Jersey. He served in this capacity until 1914, when he became a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. He was a chairman of the Commission in 1918-1919. He was the author of "Elements of Public Finance" (1899); and "Continuation of Alexander Johnston's History of American Politics" (1902). He was a contributor to magazines on economic subjects.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921, Josephus Daniels had just left the Navy Department under the cloud of the Sims inquiry; his career then ran on for decades, as Franklin Roosevelt's chief (Roosevelt was his assistant secretary) and later as Roosevelt's ambassador to Mexico from 1933 to 1941, until his death in 1948. His 1914 order banning alcohol from wardrooms, praised here, is popularly credited with the phrase "a cup of joe," though the etymology is unproven. The entry is silent on what now dominates his reputation: as editor of the Raleigh News and Observer he drove the white-supremacy campaign behind the 1898 Wilmington coup, and in 2020 his descendants had his statue removed from a Raleigh square. Winthrop More Daniels stayed on the Interstate Commerce Commission into the 1920s and returned to teaching at Yale, dying in 1944.
Written for this edition, 2026.