Word: manila
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power, the Board of Control, still remained clipped by hostile Filipinos. This Board is composed of the Governor General, the President of the Senate (Manuel Quezon), the Speaker of the House (Manuel Roxas). It controls and selects the directors of all government owned corporations: the Philippine National Bank, the Manila Railroad Co., the National Coal Co., etc. Governor General Wood, being the minority member of this Board, was unable to put his policies into effect; so last week, on the day of the adjournment of the legislature, he announced that henceforth all the duties and powers of the Board...
Meanwhile, anti-Wood tongues in Manila worked out their wrath discussing who would probably be chosen as the Governor General's successor. Mentioned were W. Cameron Forbes, onetime (1909-13) Governor General, and Col. Carmi A. Thompson, personal representative of President Coolidge (TIME, April 12), now on his way to Washington with a bulbous report. It is known that Governor General Wood will leave Manila late in January to go to discuss the Philippines with President Coolidge, but there is scant reason to believe that he intends to resign. His health, which has been poor since an operation...
...Monitor and Merrimac, of Dewey in Manila Bay. It was President Roosevelt in 1907 when he sent the fleet around the world who first demonstrated that the Navy was a potent organization instead of a few glamorous names, a few precocious children of Fate. The Navy today lacks immortals, but is big with efficiency...
...Hearst's New York Journal could produce, there was a spunky young Assistant Secretary of the Navy at Washington who demanded that the U. S. fleet put on its fighting clothes. Then the Maine exploded like a bad dream; war came. The fleet was ready for Santiago and Manila; the Assistant Secretary became a Rough Rider. After that he became innumerable things- among them, President...
...melted into music-a widow's mite of old Judea, ring money from 1,000 B C Switzerland, pieces of shell from Flanders, clinkers from Old Ironsides, a bit from Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, from the Columbia which beat Sir Thomas from Dewey's Manila flagship Olympia, from Nelson's Trafalgar-flagship Victoria-even copper wire from the late Commander John Rodger's seaplane, the PN-9, which flew to Hawaii, and a shaving, bored, after it cracked itself in 1836 tolling for John Marshall, from the Liberty Bell...