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...large part of her correspondence with Americans deals with her investments in land in northern New York. She also looked upon America as the living example of her theories on the equality of man and life more or less in the natural state. Her correspondence with Thomas Jefferson and Gouverneur Morris shows that she was many times on the point of leaving Europe to settle in the United States, but always her intuition told her that she would never enjoy life away from her blue stocking salons notwithstanding her Rousseauistic tendencies...
Persons requiring hospital treatment included: Jack Dempsey, for infected hand; Author Gouverneur Morris, for burns incurred when he got out of his automobile to see why it would not run, dropped a spark from his cigaret into the gasoline tank; onetime American Baseball League President Ban Johnson, for a serious infection of his right little toe which was trampled in a crowd...
...Gouverneur Morris, author (The Pagan's Progress, The Penalty, The Footprint & Other Stories), became president of the Monterey (Calif.) Bank...
Married. Laurence Gouverneur Hoes, of Washington, great-great-grandson of James Monroe, fifth President of the U. S.; and Ingrid Westesson of Washington, daughter of a Swedish mining engineer; in Washington...
...Supreme Court of the U. S. in its first Prohibition decision ruled that the phrase "two-thirds of both Houses" meant two-thirds of a regular quorum in each House;† the Prohibition Amendment was legally passed under this ruling. But to Senator Uriah Tracy, Gouverneur Morris wrote in 1804: "The idea that two-thirds of the whole number of Senators and of the whole number of Representatives are required by the Constitution to propose an amendment is certainly correct." Under this interpretation, the Amendment would not have passed Congress in 1917; the present Prohibition law is clearly unconstitutional...