Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have noted frequently, statements regarding an incident occurring in California in 1916, in which it was claimed that through some failure of Governor Hiram W. Johnson and Charles Evans Hughes to get together, Candidate Hughes lost California and the election, in November 1916. Each statement that you have made regarding this incident has been different and each one that I have read has been incorrect. It happens that I am quite familiar with the facts concerning the relations of these...
...facts are that when Mr. Hughes came into California, Governor Hiram W. Johnson was then Governor of the state and the republican candidate for U. S. Senator. He had previously issued a political statement urging the election of Mr. Hughes and the giving of support to him by progressives of California. Unfortunately, Mr. Hughes permitted himself to be entirely surrounded upon his arrival in California, by political enemies of Governor Johnson, who would not permit Mr. Hughes to meet Governor Johnson, and who did not and would not invite him to preside or speak at any of the big meetings...
...plan was put into operation, he died. A printer travelling with Glover, who died at sea, then took the project in hand and cared for its transportation to the New England coast. This man, Daye, first put the press into operation in Cambridge. According to a record of Governor Winthrop. "The first thing printed was the freemen's oath; the next was an almanac made for New England by Mr. William Pierce, mariner; the next was the Psalms newly turned into verse...
...first newspaper ever printed in this country met the same fate dealt the first gesture towards press censorship and the first attempt to set up a commercial printing shop: "Publick Occurrances both Foreign and Domestick," appeared on September 26, 1690, and was immediately forbidden from the Colonies. The Governor and council gave expression to "high resentment and disallowance" to this paper printed by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris of Boston, and forbade anyone "for the future to set forth anything in print without license first obtained...
Married. Mildred Barclay Vander Poel 'of Manhattan, descendant of famed Colonial Dutchmen; and Sherburn Merrill Becker Jr., of Manhattan, descendant of Thomas Danforth, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts; in Manhattan...