Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Manila last week there were signs of a rapprochement between Governor General Dwight Filley Davis and the native Legislature. The report that Governor Davis would resign Jan. 1 to join his wife in Paris, coupled with speculation as to his successor, disturbed Filipino politicos who feared the next Governor General would be less friendly, more dictatorial. This fear prompted Sergio Osmena, president pro tem, of the Senate to declare: "Everybody knows of the continuation of Governor Davis in office at great sacrifice on his part. Because of the invalid condition of Mrs. Davis, the Governor feels the necessity...
...feelings by tossing bricks through the windows of the Casa del Pueblo (founded by Ibanez). Then it gathered in front of the home of Miguel Letelier who had been suggested in the evening papers as Minister of the Interior, and set up a sing-song chant, "Don't join the Cabinet! Don't join the Cabinet...
Miguel Letelier did join the Cabinet, but it did not do him much good. Premier Gana resigned 24 hours later. Dictator Ibanez immediately scraped up another cabinet under the leadership of Carlos Froedden, one of his oldest friends...
...husband and in 1803 she took him, ailing with tuberculosis, to Leghorn, Italy. He died in a few weeks and thereafter her faith, already strong, turned increasingly toward Catholicism. She returned to the U. S. and despite family opposition embraced the faith in 1805. She wished to join with Catholic friends in conducting a school in Manhattan, but anti-Catholic feeling was strong there. Her clerical advisers suggested that she go to Baltimore, and there in 1808 she opened her school. She prayed that she might open a free institution, soon found a benefactor, one Samuel Cooper. Hers...
...dead-head). In Manhattan last year she met Dr. Claude Dornier, offered $11,000 for passage in his huge flying boat for its much touted flight direct to the U. S. When the plane finally made its floundering way to South America, Dornier agents notified Mrs. Adams she might join it there...