Word: igorot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor General Frank Murphy lay ill at Wnite Sulphur Springs, W. Va. President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate was in Manhattan. Acting Governor General Joseph R. Hayden was far north in the Igorot Country on an inspection tour. Major General Frank Parker, commanding the Philippine District, was vacationing in China. A better opportunity for an uprising could scarcely have presented itself to disadvantaged Filipino hotheads. Last week they took it, with the bloodiest consequences of any Philippine revolt in the past 15 years...
...races of mankind. They were the work of able, grey-haired Malvina Hoffman of New York (TIME, Dec. 24 et ante). Aided by her husband, and by a series of bequests from rich Chicagoans, Sculptress Hoffman had spent six years on her job, circumnavigated the globe, coaxed Igorot headhunters out of trees with strings of beads, done West African types in the solid comfort of the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931. Whatever their value to science and the Field Museum, the 101 Hoffman statues are works of art that the Chicago Art Institute, one mile away, would gladly make room...
...same right to the Philippines as had been exercised by the Indonesians, the Malays and the Spaniards-the right of conquest. This set the Manila politicos sputtering. Through their news organs they demanded elucidation, comment, argument. But Secretary Hurley could not be reached. He had made off into the Igorot country. Back from the Igorots, who pleaded against immediate independence as did the Moros, Secretary Hurley made his first official utterance in the islands. It was not about insular independence. "For several months." said he, "Governor General Dwight F. Davis has wanted to resign owing to illness in his family...
...Sultan of Sulu, to represent the Philippines' Moslem population. Occupant of an ancient throne that once had wide temporal powers, the Sultan used to have 50 wives. Now he has but three. Representative of the Islands' pagan tribes in the House is Dr. Hilary Clapp, full-blooded Igorot...