Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parts of the world. Ships, immigrants, animals (especially rats) may bring the pests into the U. S. Dr. Cumming's small brigade of doctors, dentists, sanitarians, pharmacists, nurses and specialists inspected 21,631 ships, more than 2,000,000 passengers, more than 2,000,000 seamen at domestic, insular and foreign ports. Result: only seven cases of smallpox, one of leprosy and two of typhus reached U. S. quarantine...
...lone hand as George Washington of the Philippines. He planned, first of all, to see to it that his successor in Washington should be appointed by the Filipino Senate and not by Governor General Stimson. To effect this, he dated his resignation ahead to July 16, when the insular Senate will be in session. Secondly, he planned to enter the Filipino legislature on a straight Independence ticket. Thirdly, he said he would establish a newspaper to fight, slug for slug, the Stimson policy of introducing U. S. capital to the islands in a large...
That Manuel Quezon, leader of the Philippine Senate, who spoke at the Union on Monday evening, has already put in motion a plan of insular government that will remove every trace of American supervision, inspection and direction, is the substance of information released by the War Department at Washington on Tuesday. This change of authority is going forward with the consent of President Coolidge, thus showing that the visit of Quezon and his companion, Sergio Osmena, representing the politicos of the islands, has already begun to bear more fruit than the promises of the last five presidents, cited...
...extraordinary flair for popularity. Perhaps it is the Spanish blood in his veins that makes him an impassioned demagogue. He fought with Aguinaldo in the Insurrection, governed a province, served 10 years in Washington as Resident Commissioner and burns to be the George Washington of an Insular Pacific Republic...
...distinguished gathering of representatives from Japan, from China, from Australia, from Great Britain and from the U. S. The purpose of the conference was the interchange of information and ideas concerning Pacific problems, particularly with respect to relations between the Occidental and Oriental populations in U. S. and British insular possessions. Special attention was also to be given to the tangled, complicated situation in China...