Word: filipinos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Filipino politicos like the dramatic gesture; and if it be a bit strained or ridiculous on the occasion, it is no matter to them. At home, they have found that the open sesame to election and reelection, to political preferment and profit is to declare for Philippine independence above all things else. And if the declaration profits them little before the Secretary of War at Washington, they are not greatly...
Independence is a good thing, but it needs to be approached with circumspection, else in the capturing it yields and entirely vanishes. But many-a great many-Filipino politicians are not concerned with independence, for the advocacy of it gains their ends; and to achieve independence would deprive them of their easiest road to office. So they play with the independence idea and, with a true gift for the dramatic, dress it in a thousand garbs and adorn it with a thousand gestures. Now they squabble with the Governor General; now they send themselves a-junketing to Washington; always they...
...morning the 57th Regiment of the Filipino Scouts and part of the Twelfth Medical Regiment refused to turn out for drill and other martial exercises. Their white officers exhorted them; the 600 Filipinos shook their heads. As a matter of fact, they wanted more pay. They are paid on the same scale that American soldiers are paid, but whereas the Americans are paid dollars, the Filipinos are paid pesos. Pesos are worth 50? each, and the Scouts had discovered that the arrangement worked to their disadvantage. They considered what fitting action should be taken and decided to prepare...
...George Washington (United States)?Lucio and Simiplicio Goldino, 16-year-old Filipino Siamese twins...
...Brooklyn, Pancho Villa, fighting Filipino and world's flyweight champion, knocked bamtamweight Bud Taylor, Terre Haute Terror, into a cocked hat in 12 rounds...