Word: calhouns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warden Court Smith was beleaguered in his office. To reach the prison wall, he would have to cross a bald courtyard under whatever fire the convicts might loose. He telephoned to Governor Clement Calhoun Young in Sacramento, 25 miles away, to send over soldiers, bombs, artillery. He ordered all available riflemen to the prison wall and consulted with aides whether to starve out the revolt or crush it at once...
...name of the Governor of California is Clement Calhoun Young...
Governor Clement Calhoun Young of California and Lieutenant Governor Burton Fitts both welcomed the delegates warmly...
Ritchie. It was 99 years ago that John Caldwell Calhoun, then Vice President of the U. S., wrote "The South Carolina Exposition," a political thesis which maintained that the Federal Government was usurping rights inherent to the individual states. Calhoun's protest was inspired by the high tariff law of 1828. Later the tariff problem was swallowed up in the secession issue and the state rights doctrine temporarily crumbled at Gettysburg and Appomattox Court House...
...language locally as having, in a more limited degree, the meaning of "madame to which the French journalists objected. You may also be interested in knowing that in "white slave" circles the Panama Canal is referred to as "the sieve," and "slaves" are known as "fresh meat." . . . C. H. CALHOUN...