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Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, to recommend that Governor Wallace Rider Farrington of Hawaii be appointed Governor-General of the Philippines...
...question of feeding the inhabitants of an island like Japan, who are increasing at the rate of almost 900,000 a year and who cannot, because of the policy of other Pacific nations, export in sufficient quantities either population or goods. The conference did not, of course, explicitly recommend any way of dealing with this problem, but the various speakers tended to indorse the Japanese contention that the other Pacific peoples ought to modify their own policies in order to take care of the Japanese increase in population. If they were unwilling to accept Japanese immigrants, it was their duty...
...first time a superintendent of schools had ever been tried in Chicago. The charges were insubordination (refusing to replace teachers who worked in the executive offices and sometimes substituted in the classroom, with civil service clerks) and unpatriotism. Evidence adduced to prove the latter charge: "He refused to recommend to the School Board that the school children be permitted to donate small amounts of money for the purpose of reconditioning-the famous American battleship Old Ironsides. . . . He recommended history text books which contained pro-British propaganda and which omitted the name and exploits of many foreign and native-born heroes...
...this I do know--my own college career was made possible by the Employment Bureau: I needed money and was willing to work. I was asked intimate questions by the Bureau, and I did not have too much pride to answer them. Had the Bureau shown the "indifference" you recommend, my college days might have ended prematurely...
Shapiro is entering his third year as a squad member, and has in addition to experience a weight of 215 pounds to recommend him. On his ability to fit his ponderous frame into the speedy modern game of football, depends to a large extent his status this season...