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...should hold on to its Pacific possession. He returned with the same fixed idea. Last week he was summoned to the Capitol to testify on a bill prepared by Senators Hawes & Cutting which would progressively free the Philippines over a five year period. Before the Senate Territories & Insular Affairs Committee the following dialog occurred...
...With the insular legislature about to begin its quarrelsome session last week, newly appointed Governor James Rumsey Beverley ordered an investigation. In charge were Ramon Quinones; Dr. Ed-wardo Garrido Morales, representing the insular health department; and Dr. Pablo Morales y Otero, representing the Medical Association of Porto Rico. Dr. George Calvin Payne, resident representative of the Rockefeller Foundation, stood by with Dr. William Bosworth Castle, Dr. Rhoads' immediate associate in the pernicious anemia research. Dozens of Puertorri quenos testified that Dr. Rhoads had saved their lives, had given them his own blood...
...transferred to Manila. Mr. Beverley stepped up into his job. Last week he stepped up to the top of the insular Government with the transfer of Theodore Roosevelt to the Philippines as Governor General. A competent administrator, Governor Beverley speaks Spanish like a native, plays with Boy Scouts, is pleasing to Porto Ricans. His job: to keep peace among the five political parties in Porto Rico, and keep alive his predecessor's program of economic rehabilitation. ¶ President Hoover signed a bill adding $125,000.000 to the capital of the Federal Land Bank system...
...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...