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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics. On Feb. 16, 1923, General Wood sent to the Philippine Legislature a message dealing principally with the Philippine National Bank. The Legislature never heard the Governor's words because the Quezon-Osmena group which controls the Legislature quietly suppressed the message. Lately members of the Democratic (minority) Party began to agitate for a disclosure of the message which they had never seen. Finally General Wood published...
...become Mayor of New York-that immigrants were herded into the hot sun while Mr. Wallis and his followers addressed them from a shaded spot. One account (not specifically attributed to Mr. Curran) related that one of Mr. Wallis' friends addressed the immigrants, saying: " My friends, you have heard Commissioner Wallis mentioned for Mayor of this great city, but he is a greater man than that." Ditto for Governor of New York. Ditto for President of the U. S. " I nominate my friend, Commission Wallis, for President of the World...
...Iron Door discovered ? Natachee had an opportunity for several symbolic orations?and "in the blue depth of the sky a wheeling eagle screamed . . . Natachee . . . smiled." So did Mr. Wright. Also D. Appleton and Co. Likewise, every bookseller and train-news-agent in these United States when they heard the good news, for here, once more, was that rara avis, a novel that sells itself...
Tweedles. Author Tarkington sets the scene in an antiquity shop on the Maine coast. Julian Castlebury, summer colonist, falls in love with Winsora Tweedle, native daughter of the curious antiques who make their living from the antique curiosities. His parents object because nobody in Philadelphia has ever heard of the Tweedles; and her parents object, even more strongly, because no one in Maine has ever heard of the Castleburys. The solution of this dilemma seems tenuous to the point of ineptitude?yet still surprisingly diverting...
...case. Of 110,000,000 people considerably more than 99.9% had no personal acquaintance with the late President. To them he was a name, a picture, the holder of a respected office, the author of certain addresses which most had read in part and a few had heard. It was contrary to nature that these people should be " plunged in gloom." Nearly all went about their business with undiminished vitality. They were sorry, they showed public signs of respect and mourning, but it was not natural that any but a few, aside from Mr. Harding's personal friends, should...