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...President or the Japanese Emperor goes junketing not even high-priced cable tolls can keep the details out of U. S. newspapers. But with the Governor General of the Philippine Islands the case is different. Last week a few inch-long despatches buried the fact that Governor General Dwight Filley Davis, his daughter Cynthia and his son Dwight Jr. were using the U. S. S. Pittsburgh for the kind of voyage that Cook's tourists dream about for years and finally take. For two years Mr. Davis has been at his post in Manila. Lately he was joined by newly...
Last week he returned to the Philippines to visit the present Governor General, Dwight Filley Davis, aristocratic St. Louisan.* Local observers thought they intended negotiations with Japan regarding the great influx of Japanese at Davao, Island of Mindanao, where the Japanese have aroused the natives' ire by gaining control of more than 50% of the hemp industry...
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...