Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore return the bill without my approval."-Calvin Coolidge. The bill had been passed by the Philippine legislature and repassed by a two-thirds majority over Governor General Leonard Wood's veto. It proposed to hold a plebiscite among the islanders on the question: "Do you desire the immediate, absolute and complete independence of the Philippine Islands?" Under the organic law of the territory, the President of the U. S. has final authority on all bills passed by the native legislature. Hence, there will be no plebiscite and independence in the Philippines is still a remote subject...
...Islands is the protection of and by the United States. . . . "The people should realize that political activity is not the end of life, but rather a means to obtain those economic, industrial and social conditions essential to a stable existence." Next Step. President Coolidge having, as everyone expected, upheld Governor General Wood in vetoing the plebiscite, the next step is for the U. S. Congress to grant certain governmental and economic reforms which will soothe the independence agitation. These reforms were suggested in Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report (TIME, Jan. 3)-which, among other things, hinted that Governor...
...Vanzetti case, already well supported by Harvard names, today is added the Law School and the Liberal Club. The petition of the first-mentioned organization, at least, should add a weighty voice to chorus of protests, many of them based purely on sentimentality, that now is being sung in Governor Fuller...
...that sentiment was turning against Sacco and vanzetti in their fight for a judicial review. Six letters, cited as examples of the turning tide are printed under the headline, the most characteristic one of which is from Mrs. Lucy P. Hayden of H. Wayne Street, Roxbury, who "urges the governor to refuse to extend any clemency to Sacco and Vanzetti. She says this expresses the opinion of all her acquaintances with whom she has talked...
...Transcript closed its story of Governor Fuller's mail at this point. Its renders would have been misinformed, but their childhood illusions as to the Transcript's purity would not have been shattered. But, the Transcript, like an honest man trying to lie, did a poor job of it. For, immediately following Mrs. Lucy P. Hayden, still under the same headline, are listed letters from eleven correspondents of Governor Fuller, all of them demanding at least a judicial review, and being on the whose far more impressive writers than Mrs. Lucy P. Hayden of H. Wayne Street, Roxbury...