Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, "Louisianan Governor:'' "Republicans being as scarce in Louisiana as frogs in the Sahara...
While echoes of Governor General Stimson's inaugural speech still rang in the Philippine press, a short, swart, bald, bearded little man in Washington put finishing touches on a speech of his own, sent it to the U. S. House of Representatives, caused his trunks to be packed and, with his wife, started for home. Governor General Stimson had declared flatly his opposition to Philippine independence in anything like the near future (TIME, March 12). The little man in Washington, Resident Commissioner Isauro Gabaldon of the Philippines, was resigning and going home, not only to keep independence sentiment alive...
...such professional agitators as Manuel Quezon, Sergio Osmena and Manuel Roxas, Lawyer Gabaldon intended to play a lone hand as George Washington of the Philippines. He planned, first of all, to see to it that his successor in Washington should be appointed by the Filipino Senate and not by Governor General Stimson. To effect this, he dated his resignation ahead to July 16, when the insular Senate will be in session. Secondly, he planned to enter the Filipino legislature on a straight Independence ticket. Thirdly, he said he would establish a newspaper to fight, slug for slug, the Stimson policy...
...legislation in question provides for increased salaries for the Governor General and other officials and pay for "advisers" desired by Governor General Stimson in addition to his regular Cabinet. Lawyer Gabaldon's objection was based in the familiar phrase, "Taxation without representation." He thought the Philippine legislature, when it meets, should be allowed to pass on these expenditures of island taxes. In general, the Gabaldon revolt is against the dilatory, if not reactionary trend of U. S. Philippine policy since 1899, when Dr. Jacob G. Schurman, president of the first Philippine Commission, construed the U. S. policy...
...exclusive articles" for the Pittsburgh Press in advance of his committee's report to the Senate. The Gooding nature explained this. Born in England, he made his way as an immigrant boy in Idaho and raised a fortune in sheep. Stolid, foursquare, unoriginal, he was a good conservative Governor for Idaho in 1905-07, when the state was worried about the I. W. W. He lacks the discrimination of his statesmanlike colleague but what he sees within a few feet of his nose, he sees clearly, and names boldly. Thus, coming upon evidences of radicalism in the Pennsylvania morass...