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Twenty-five years ago Herbert George Wells was a youngster of 42. His name stood for exuberant modernity, trailblazing science and a freely roving intelligence always starting up some new species of Utopian hare. But most of all it stood for exciting tales-plausible narrations of improbable happenings. Last week readers who had encountered Author Wells only as a compiler of outlines-of-knowledge or a pamphleteering old World Conspirator, had a good chance to make his acquaintance as a young man. And every faithful and once-faithful Wellsian was glad that these early tales (The Time Machine, The Island...
...affairs and retiring on a pittance, or selling stock to the public on the chance of a comeback. For days he debated with himself before choosing honest poverty. But first he set aside a sum-"millions"'-for taxes. This he entrusted to an old employe named Zebediah Z. Hare who promptly skipped with the money and left poor, big-hearted old Daddy Warbucks in a terrible predicament...
When the Seventy-second Congress passed the Hare-Hawes-Cutting bill for Philippine independence, that was later rejected by the Philippine Legislature, ten Harvard professors wrote to the committees on Insular Affairs to stress the need for abandoning United States military and naval bases in the Philippines if the Islands were to be given anything like real independence. The Seventy-third Congress has just passed the McDuffie resolution granting Philippine independence, and one of the major changes in the new bill is the abandonment of military bases in the Islands and provision for abandonment of the naval bases...
...House passed the McDuffie Bill yesterday with scarcely a murmur of protest, and all signs lead us to believe that the Senate will rapidly follow suit. This McDuffie Bill is a revised version of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Bill rejected by the Philippine Legislature last year, and it grants the Islands an even more complete independence. The changes in the Bill have been favorably commented upon by the President of the Philippine Senate, Manuel Quezon, and other prominent leaders in that legislature, and it is to be expected that the Bill will be immediately granted the required sanction...
...year ago, when the Philippine Legislature refused to accept their independence on the terms of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Bill, the principal monkey wrenches in the machines of ratification were the provisions that the United States Army and Naval bases would not be given up to Philippine control, and that a practically prohibitive sugar tariff would be levied at once. There is hardly any question as to the justice of the Island objections to harboring American Army bases on their otherwise independent soil. Obviously, independence in such a case would be but a gesture of none too friendly diplomacy...