Word: filley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Don Manuel de Yriarte, social adviser to Governor-General Dwight Filley Davis of the Philippines and to previous governors since William Howard Taft (1901-1904); of apoplexy while directing the rigodon de honor, stately, traditional dance which he always led at the opening of governmental receptions...
When last July President Hoover named Mr. Roosevelt as No. 2 man to Governor General Dwight Filley Davis at Manila, a great hubbub was raised against him by leaders of the Philippine independence movement. A New York Times editorial writer, Mr. Roosevelt had visited the islands in 1925, investigated conditions, published a book (The Philippines, a Treasure and a Problem) which incensed politicos. Mr. Roosevelt was denounced as an enemy of the island people. After his appointment his book was burned in protest. Because the Senate had failed to confirm his nomination, he did not travel to Manila to take...
Died. Mrs. John Tilden (Maria Filley) Davis, mother of Governor General Dwight Filley Davis of the Philippines; of old age, at her home in St. Louis...
...outbreak of cholera in the Island of Bantayan, 300 mi. southeast of Manila, is causing uneasiness throughout the entire Philippine Archipelago. Governor General Dwight Filley Davis returned last week from a tour of the infested district, assured his fellow citizens the plague was under control. Robert Hart, chief quarantine officer of Manila, declared that city was quite safe. But it was learned the disease had spread from Bantayan to the neighboring islands of Cebu and Masbate despite a strict government quarantine which has stopped practically all commerce within the affected region. Especially miserable and hungry were the inhabitants...
...November, U. S. Secretary of War James William Good died. A month later, to take his place Patrick Jay Hurley, then Assistant Secretary of War, was selected by President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 16). A question immediately arose: who could fill the vacated Assistant Secretaryship? From that post Dwight Filley Davis had gone into the Cabinet succeeding the late Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks; Mr. Hurley's elevation seemed to establish the precedent that War Department assistant secretaries are full secretaries in embryo. So, for five months the President of the U. S. weighed carefully the qualifications of candidates...