Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate, Philippine Senator Sergio Osmena and Resident Philippine Commissioner Pedro Guevara, with congratulations on the appointment of Governor-General Stimson. Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine to present Civil War Veterans (see THE STATES...
...problem was: How to keep the Philippines under the War Department yet give them a civilian rather than military administration? The solution was: Appoint as successor to the late Governor General Leonard Wood a civilian with military experience, a soldierly statesman. A man that notably suited the requirements, was Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, practitioner of law under Elihu Root, of athletics and politics under Theodore Roosevelt, of administration under William Howard Taft, of mediation under Calvin Coolidge. Last week Col. Stimson accepted the post...
...Department was glad. Col. Stimson once a cavalry sergeant, ran the War Department in 1911-1913. Filipinos were glad. Col. Stimson has been much among them and last spring he declared he favors developing responsible Filipino's political parties, choosing the Governor General's cabinet from the majority party and using the Governor General's veto-power only to prevent dereliction. U. S. business was glad. Educated at Yale and Harvard, cultivated in Manhattan, Col. Stimson has a conservative backround and, by his pacification of Nicaragua last spring, his ability has been demonstrated. Mrs. Leonard Wood...
...Read, debated, amended & passed the House Deficiency Bill; returned it to joint conference; adopted the conference report; sent the bill to the President. ¶ Concurred with the House to adjourn Dec. 21 to Jan. 4. ¶ Confirmed Presidential appointments, including Ambassador-to-Mexico Morrow, Governor-General Stimson of the Philippines, Ambassador-to-Cuba Judah, Under-Secretary of State Olds, Assistant-Secretary of Commerce Brown, Minister-to-Liberia Francis...
...decade. The Baumes grading of punishments for repeated felonies, topped off by life imprisonment for a fourth conviction regardless of degree, has been the model for tightened laws in many a state. The theory underlying the Baumes code is that crime is disease, that habitual criminals are chronic patients. Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York appeared before the Baumes commission a fortnight ago and elaborated its theory of crime still further. He made suggestions which, if adopted, will constitute a departure almost as notable in criminology as was the substitution of vaccine for leeches in the treatment of smallpox...