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...Colonel Carmi A. Thompson, suave among politicians, even more suave among business men, has become an oracle in the Philippines in less than a fortnight. Filipinos and Moros, little brown senators and big brown generals were curious to hear the personal representative of President Coolidge. Is he a meddlesome quack or is he a saintly surgeon come to mend their wounds...
...President announced that Carmi Alderman Thompson of Ohio will make a report on all the chief insular possessions of the U. S. in the Pacific in addition to his expected report on the Philippines (TIME, April 12, THE PRESIDENCY). Mr. Thompson will visit Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, for which natty white costumes must be procured, some advance knowledge acquired...
Such tribute put to scorn newspaper gossip, which interpreted President Coolidge's action in appointing Carmi A. Thompson (TIME, April 12) to investigate the Islands as a thrust at the General...
Last week the President appointed Carmi Alderman* Thompson, veteran politician and big iron and coal man of Ohio, to go to the Philippines as his personal representative on a mission of investigation. In the White House announcement nothing was said about prospective Philippine independence. The realist attitude was reflected...
...struck about five miles inland at Murphysboro. For the next 30 miles, it seems to have swept on most fiercely through De Soto, Bush, West Frankfort, Parrish, passing about five miles north of Herrin. Then it seems to have stopped again, 20 or 30 miles to McLeansboro and Carmi, crossed the Wabash River into Indiana, promptly demolishing Griffin and razing half of Princeton. Apparently this was done by one tornado or a recurrent one, because the path of the storm is a mathematically straight line on the map. Subsidiary storms invaded Tennessee and Kentucky, not without death and destruction...