Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...spite of this unfortunate state of affairs, Governor Johnson continued to speak throughout the state in favor of the candidacy of Mr. Hughes and to ardently and vigorously urge his election. Governor Johnson's speeches were widely quoted by the Republican press and were used in every way to further Mr. Hughes' election. . . . However, the progressive element in the State of California, which was then in the majority, rightly or wrongly became convinced that Mr. Hughes intended to align himself with the reactionary element of the party and to ignore progressive men and principles in his administration...
...California knew no bounds. They realized that in their efforts to defeat Governor Johnson for the senatorship, and to use Mr. Hughes against him, they had only defeated Mr. Hughes, for Governor Johnson was elected U. S. Senator by a large majority, while Hughes failed to carry the state...
Interpreter Sherwell from the State Department started classes in Spanish in the wardroom...
There is a saying in Washington that the U. S. policy toward Nicaragua is handled at the State Department by an office boy. There is a sharper saying, among anti-imperialists, that the office boy is in the pay of Wall Street. An emanation from the State Department last week on the subject of Nicaragua appeared to prove the truth of at least one of these sayings...