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...after all, it's pretty hard to teach an old dog new tricks and, frankly, the Vagabond is not happy in his new lodgings, even the men who paint his tower have conspired to make him blue. The youngsters round about him seem happy, but the sound of insular accents and the sight of foreign customs are too much for an old traditionalist. And so, as the bells come in, the Vagabond goes out, back to Memorial Hall, that symbol of an old-and-not-to-be-despised Harvard...
Although J. A. Sisto & Co. carried a moderate number of trading accounts, it was known chiefly as an investment banking house. It was one of the largest dealers in U. S. pre-War bonds and insular and territory obligations. Likewise it became identified with many enterprises, all of which have been recognized in the Street as good small concerns. In the past, the firm has been identified with Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., Checker Cab Mfg. Corp., Curtis Publishing Co. and Parmelee Transportation Co. Generally considered to have been the Sisto stumbling block is Cosden Oil Co. which has suffered continued...
Last week, however, a commission of Congressmen headed by Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham, chairman of the Territories & Insular Affairs Committee, were aboard the 7,05O-ton cruiser Omaha en route from Honolulu to Pago Pago to consider at first hand the conflicting petitions and reports which Congress has received. While at Honolulu they had held sessions, heard much testimony from Samoans and others...
Directly responsible for the Philippines as Secretary of War, Patrick Jay Hurley from his sick bed sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Insular Affairs opposing, in the name of the Hoover Administration, freedom for the Islands now or at a fixed future date as "disastrous alike to the ultimate interests of both the Filipino and American people...
Impartial House observers rate him thus: A steady-going unimaginative legislator, he possesses qualities which regular Republicans consider sterling. No House leader, he gives reliable support to the House leadership. He is a good specialist on insular affairs, deprived by G. O. Policy of an opportunity to display his legislative ability and special knowledge along that line. Politically practical, above the average in parliamentary intelligence, he lends substance if not color to the Republican House majority...