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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft was quick to reply: "Utterly unfair . . . a partisan political attack. . . . In the Act . . . the President received complete power to prevent speculation and speculative increase in prices and all increases in rents. . . . He chose to take all the chances of chaos, followed by speculative rises in prices...
Rizal was executed for his ardor in 1896-a Spanish act that fixed Rizal, and freedom, forever in the Filipino mind. The same year, Spain was chastising others of its colonists-the Cubans. In the U.S., Manifest Destiny, indignant over the spectacle of Spanish soldiers hunting defenseless, freedom-loving Cubans in the hills, glowered and tugged. In Congress and in the torch-lighted squares, war fever mounted...
Then came the Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934 which gave the Philippines a ten-year period of free (or Commonwealth) government, and granted them independence on July...
American responsibility does not end with the signatures on the Tyding-McDuffie Act of independence. From the viewpoint of a trustee country that has invested great sums and thousands of lives in Philippine independence it is scarcely consistent to threaten that independence with eventual, if slow, strangulation. And is this new entity to compete on equal terms with Japanese or British colonial enterprise if it must continually scramble to avert economic tragedy in the sugar market...
...first meeting of a newly-formed committee to work for repassage of the original OPA act is scheduled for 1:30 o'clock this afternoon in the American Veterans Committee office in Phillips Brooks House, Stan Geller, organizer of the committee, announced last night...