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...chain system, he found independence under the terms set by Congress "unjust and absurd." But with racial shrewdness (he is quarter-Spanish) he decided to hold his fire until the independence commission returns to present its arguments to the Legislature. The coming regular legislative elections, which may violently split the majority party, will be in effect a plebiscite on H. R. 7233 by the islands' 13,000,000 inhabitants. Meanwhile, Senor Quezon, whom many Filipinos already hail as the islands' "Presidente," planned to sail for the U. S. and Washington in the spring to demand "immediate independence" from...
...first period it was inevitable that the Crimson, fortified by a new scoring punch, would pile up a big total. Not only was the Crimson play distinguished by an air-tight defense, but Baldwin-Putnam scoring combination was working with great effectiveness, and Pruyn's solo dashes that continually split the Bruin defense-zone gave the Crimson an evident superiority...
...triumphed over an affliction of the legs, dating in his case from a motorcycle accident. Recently he resigned from South Africa's Federal bench. Last week, supported by friends who helped him in & out of motor cars and up to platforms. Judge Roos began a campaign to split the Nationalist Party of himself and Premier Hertzog. Appealing to South African farmers he told them that to go off the gold standard would mean "higher prices" for their produce-which it would, in depreciated Union pounds. Appealing to South Africa's mining interests he offered them the prospect...
...Sunday & Daily Times (sold to Scripps-Howard in 1929 at an estimated price of $5,000,000); of asthma & heart trouble; in Buffalo. Famed as New York's "original Bryan man," he fought for three Bryan nominations (1896, 1900. 1908), stayed regular-party in 1904 when Bryan split. Long a fighter for Prohibition modification, he lined up last February for Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President, resigned his National Committeemanship after the convention...
...Germans read of the adjournment, they read also of the split: Gregor Strasser, national organizing director of the Fascist Party since it was founded in 1920, had suddenly resigned his Party office (though he remains a Party member) and Gottfried Feder, chairman of the Party's Economic Committee, had asked for a "long leave of absence...