Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture shows its hero bearing the white man's burden with superfluous fortitude and increasing its weight by disguising his nobility with sophomoric sarcasm. Touted as a ladies' man because he once acted as co-respondent in divorce proceedings, he is pestered by the habitues of an insular country club in the Far East. The males suspect him of a willingness to make free with their wives and daughters, a suspicion which the wives and daughters gleefully share. Finally the hero lives up to his reputation, with the doctor's wife. The inference is that they elope...
...Faced by a man who says little, goes about patiently asking questions and scrupulously keeping his counsel, politicos are likely to become nervous and uneasy. Wherever Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley flew during the past three weeks in his effort to bring back to President Hoover the insular attitude toward independence, the wash of his plane's propeller, the dust kicked up by his horse or motor magnified itself into daily monsoons at Manila. The native House of Representatives began devoting a daily half-hour period to bombarding Secretary Hurley. Speaker Manuel Roxas, leader of the independence bloc...
Last week Governor Davis appointed to the insular Senate Jamalul Kiram, 66-year-old Sultan of Sulu, to represent the Philippines' Moslem population. Occupant of an ancient throne that once had wide temporal powers, the Sultan used to have 50 wives. Now he has but three. Representative of the Islands' pagan tribes in the House is Dr. Hilary Clapp, full-blooded Igorot...
Last week in Washington Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham, chairman of the Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs and bitter opponent of Philippine independence, admitted that he was defeated and that the next Congress would legislate to free the islands. His only hope, he said, was that President Hoover would veto such a bill. Philippine independence, according to the Senator, now commands a Congressional majority because members from farm districts want to put the islands outside the U. S. tariff and thus eliminate their competition with domestic vegetable oils and sugar. Declared Senator Bingham: "The Filipinos' chief grievance...
...feared Germany would establish a submarine base there. Until last week they were a neglected appendage of the Navy Department which used them as a coaling base. Their transfer to civil government by President Hoover was generally regarded as the first step in a program to demilitarize U. S. insular possessions...