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...nominated Nicholas Roosevelt to be Vice Governor (TIME, July 28, 1930 et seq.). Mr. Roosevelt had toured the islands as a newsman, written his impressions of the people in a not too flattering book (The Philippines, A Treasure and a Problem). Filipinos raised such an uproar that their protest was heard in Washington. Mr. Roosevelt helped the President out of a hole by declining the appointment...
...protest against this form of cowardice!" shouted Deputy Ruiz and rushed toward the rostrum...
...Bishop Cannon had failed to account to Congress for $48,300. Last week the Senate Committee, chairmanned by North Dakota's young, belligerent Nye, met to receive a report from Mr. Manly and hear other witnesses. The Bishop was abroad, visiting Paris and London. He cabled a protest to the com mittee in which he claimed the inquiry was "a purely personal attack by a vindictive Virginia Democrat [Senator Carter Glass] and a Boston Representative under Roman Catholic domination [George Holden Tinkham].*" He declared his campaign activities were for Presidential electors who, he claimed, were State officers and thus...
...this large Philip Franklin exploded. He wrote a long letter of protest to the Shipping Board. It was not the first time, he declared, that I. M. M. had suffered grave injustice at the hands of the Government. Criticism of I. M. M. for owning foreign flag tonnage was unjustified; the company was entirely U. S.-controlled, anxious to spend more money to develop North Atlantic trade. Then Mr. Franklin revealed an astonishing fact. During the Wilson administration, he declared, his company received from a British syndicate an offer of $130,000,000 for I. M. M.'s foreign...
...tariff in particular, are too high (TIME, Jan. 19 et seq.). Here were delegates from ten countries saying the same thing again under his chairmanship. The mystery was how Al Wiggin persuaded France's delegate, hollow-eyed, white-haired Emile Moreau, to sign the report without public protest. It is definitely known that while the report was being prepared Banker Moreau banged the table in his best French manner and swore that he would return to Paris immediately if the question of Reparations was brought up. Yet the spidery signature of Banker Moreau appeared in its due place...