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Twelve Miles. Outside the three-mile limit (indisputedly U. S. domain) lies the twelve-mile limit, claimed by the U. S. for "search & seizure" under the 1922 Tariff Act. Forty-eight hours after the Josephine K. shelling, F. A. Bierkett, executive officer of the Coast Guard cutter Sebago, was ordered by Washington to determine the point at which the chase ended. His findings narrowly justified Mate Schmidt; the spot was fixed at 11.7 mi. from nearest land...
Four universities has Manila: University of Santo Tomas (founded 1619, oldest under U. S. domain), University of the Philippines, National University, University of Manila. The little brown students of Manila are fond of moving pictures, especially ones which portray luscious Hollywood white girls making love...
...natives built him a concrete house on the northeastern shore of the island. He circled his domain in a motorboat, rode over it on horseback. He doctored adults with castor oil and quinine, treated babies according to the rules laid down in Dr. Holt's Care and Feeding of Children. He served as midwife. He showed native fishermen how to fix their nets, farmers how to irrigate their gardens. He dispensed ready but gentle justice...
...proposal Senator Ashurst had declared: "The peninsula is a vermiform appendix to Mexico. It is the heel, the Achilles heel, to the United States. The Mexican Republic is both unwilling and unable to police the domain and is unable to resist aggressions from or settlements by Oriental powers...
...Absurd," "Silly," "Not for Sale," retorted Mexican officials to the Ashurst proposal. Mexico is forbidden by its present Constitution to cede any of its domain to a foreign power...