Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mandatory, the United States would be in the position of trustee for the development and ultimate self-rule of Armenia. This is the principle on which the United States has acted since 1787 in the administration of its dependencies, the principle that has been followed in the case of Cuba in the years following 1898, and in the Philippines since its annexation, and which must be reinforced no by our actions as well as by our words...
...Americans under some such arrangements as shall be left by adopting the League with reservations. Then let us recognize that we ought to try to save the machinery of the League. We are going to do things just as we did in the Spanish War when we went into Cuba to terminate the intolerable conditions there, and as we did in this war, to help civilization. We want to do it; we want that question disposed of now and not brought into our general election, because people cannot vote intelligently on a question, a document, of that kind...
...true that some of the potential candidates have made millions and others have inherited millions, while Leonard Wood is a poor man. Wood has not had the privilege of handling millions of his own in private business, but in the larger business venture of establishing a nation like Cuba in business he has collected, and directed the expenditure of, nearly threescore millions of dollars, and he did this economically and wisely
...bringing order to the Moros in the Philippines, and on his way to this post visited Egypt, India and Java to observe the methods of dealing with native populations presenting a mixture of races and beliefs, in many ways a more delicate and difficult undertaking than the problem in Cuba. He was here conspicuously successful. From 'a slave-holding, polygamous, head-hunting land' he developed a community largely self governing. In 1905 he was commander in chief of the American forces in the Philippines. He returned to the United States. in 1908 and served as commander of the Department...