Word: governors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cameron Forbes '92, vice-governor of the Philippines and secretary of commerce and police at Manila, delivered an interesting lecture on the Philippines last evening in the Union. Mr. Forbes dwelt especially on the advance that the Filipinos have made in education, business ability and political efficiency since the American occupation of the islands...
...firm of J. M. Forbes and Company since 1899. Later he became an officer and a director of several Boston corporations. In 1904 he was appointed a member of the Philippine Commission. He also held the offices of Secretary of Commerce and Police at Manila, and of Vice-Governor of the Philippines...
...Cameron Forbes '92, vice-governor of the Philippine Islands, will speak in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture, which will be open only to members of the Union, is the first of the series for this year. Besides the post of vice-governor of the Islands, Mr. Forbes holds the position of Secretary of Police and Commerce at Manila. Until his appointment as vice-governor, he served as a member of the Philippine Commission...
...knowledge of tariff and labor questions, and can control the government. "Self-government is the key-note of our institutions." Every well-educated man has that power for good or evil in his hands. Mr. Murray, then said that the current idea about Mr. Vahey, the Democratic nominee for governor, that he did "everything with a brass band," was false; and that from actual experience he knew him to be quiet and dignified...
...Augustus Everett Willson, Kentuckian by birth and residence. Harvard Bachelor of Arts in 1869, a trusted and respected lawyer, in politics a Republican in a Democratic State, elected governor of Kentucky in 1907 for four years, after an energetic and troublous contest, a fearless, honest and disinterested public servant...