Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...created a Cabinet appointed by the Governor. It happened, however, that the two leading politicians of the island, Sergio Os-mena and Manuel Quezon, were Speaker of the Assembly and President of the Senate respectively. They wished a part in the executive end of the Government. Governor General Harrison allowed the formation of a new body, the Council of State. This is comprised of the members of the Cabinet and the two officers above named. Osmena was elected Vice President of this body. It has no legal standing. Nevertheless, it took over the duties of the Cabinet, which for practical...
With the coming of Governor General Wood, less indulgent to the Filipinos' desires than his predecessor, Francis Burton Harrison, it looked as if trouble was brewing. Osmena resigned from the Assembly, thereby losing his place on the Council of State, and was elected to the Senate. Quezon became Prime Minister, that is, Vice President of the Council of State. When that body resigned recently, it was Quezon who delivered the resignation. Inasmuch as he was not a member of the Cabinet, he could not, theoretically, resign for that body...
...amiable tolerance with which the "conservative" lamb and the "radical" lion of the art world lie down together. The constitution of the Woodstock Association provides that the board of directors shall always be equally divided between the radical and conservative groups. Such well-known academicians as Birge Harrison, John F. Carlson, Eugene Speicher preserve a balance against the incursions of modernism. The Woodstock people are seldom extremists, but the majority are clearly under the influence of the newer currents. Of the names which stand out, Henry Lee McFee, with his solid and colorful Portrait of a Painter; Andrew Dasburg, with...
Governor General Harrison (1913-1921), allowed the Filipinos great latitude and freedom in self-government. William Howard Taft, ex-Governor of the Philippines, denounced the latitude allowed by Harrison as unwise. General Wood has held to a stricter policy in treating the archipelago. Secretary of War Weeks does not believe that General Wood has exceeded his authority in the present case, however...
...last five Republican Conventions were held in Chicago. McKinley was nominated in Philadelphia in 1900 and in St. Louis in 1896. Harrison was nominated in Minneapolis in 1892 and in Chicago in 1888. Elaine was nominated in Chicago in 1884; Garfield, in Chicago...