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Filipinos, protesting, have termed the administration of Governor-General Leonard Wood the "Cavalry Cabinet." Smooth, alliterative, the phrase vividly suggests booted, spurred cavalrymen administering Island affairs to the accompaniment of clanking sabres. Such a picture, of course, overlooks the facts that the Filipinos have their own legislature and that a majority of Island administrative offices are held by natives. Still, the 1926 report of Carmi Thompson on the Islands did criticize the "military atmosphere" surrounding the administration, and the many U. S. Army uniforms around Malacanan Palace (seat of the Philippine government) have been no healing sight for sore Filipino...
...driven up Pennsylvania Ave., as 150,000 people became hoarse. President Coolidge and another 150,000 were waiting in the vicinity of the Washington Monument. Radio Announcer Graham McNamee was telling the rest of the land: "Here comes the guard of honor ahead of Lindbergh's car. . . . The cavalrymen with drawn sabres make a dashing picture. . . . Here's the boy. . . . He comes forward unassuming, quiet, a little stoop in his shoulders. . . . Now I will turn the microphone to the reviewing stand, where President Coolidge and the boy Lindbergh stand quietly together...
...farther from the truth. The work of the colored troops in the last, Mexican affair was nothing short of marvelous; they bore the brunt of the fighting and acquitted themselves gloriously. The negro cavalry is equal to the best we have in the Army, and the War College cavalrymen stationed at Plattsburg during the summer of 1916 were a source of admiration to every student. A captain in this same 24th Infantry told a CRIMSON representative that he would rather lead negro troops than any others...