Word: aguinaldo
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...Greencastle, Pa., got a place in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Private Fletcher did not return to Greencastle from the glories of San Juan Hill, nor was his career buried when as a first lieutenant he sweated for two years through the jungles of the Philippines hunting down Aguinaldo. In 1902 his onetime commander, then in the White House, remembered him and sent him, as second secretary, to the U. S. Legation in Cuba. As a blasphemous trooper he was no more fitted for diplomacy than, as a court reporter, he had been fitted for soldiering...
...TIME, July 20) he had an opportunity fortnight ago to tell the Manila Rotary Club how he felt about his achievement. Announced he: "I only asked a simple civil question: Whether the Filipinos wanted independence. I did not expect that to create such a disturbance." He lined up Emilio Aguinaldo, oldtime rebel, for immediate freedom, even if the price were civil war. To a joint session of the Legislature he delivered a farewell address in which he said...
Until General Frederick Funston captured the insurrectionary chief 30 years ago in the steamy jungles of the Philippines, Emilio Aguinaldo was a bloody name with which to frighten U. S. children after dark. Ever since his parole, Aguinaldo has been one of the sturdiest native supporters of U. S. rule. His son and General Funston's were friendly classmates at West Point four years ago. Aguinaldo would have nothing to do with the local movement for immediate Philippine independence...
...last week the chief, now old and brown, reversed his 3O-year position, went over to the Independistas. From a Manila hospital bed where he lay with a broken leg, Aguinaldo revealed to spry young Senator Arthur Robinson Robinson of Indiana his change of heart. The Aguinaldo plan: 1) immediate freedom for the islands; 2) five years for the U. S. to withdraw all its trappings of sovereignty; 3) ten years more of free trade between the U. S. and the Philippines. The ex-insurrecto predicted that independence would not sink the islands economically, that sheer native gratitude for freedom...
Married. General Emilio Aguinaldo, famed Philippine insurrectionist (1899-1901); To his third wife, Senorita Maria Agoncillo, 49, sister of much-moneyed landowning Filipino Gregorio Agoncillo; at Manila...