Word: manila
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond", so runs the official title of an organization which gave, one evening last week, not one but eleven dinners. Dinners in Manhattan, Salt Lake City, Denver and San Francisco, dinners as well in London, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Tokyo, Manila and the Rand. What far flung company of friends is this? They are the friends of a man who has lived a full life?such a life as few men can or even could have lived, the life of John Hays Hammond, most radically democratic millionaire...
...Siam; then Saigon and Hanoi, French Indo-China, strained their eyes in turn, and in turn beheld Captains Loriga and Gonzalez-Gallarza who had come all the way from their native Spain on a hopping-trip from Madrid in two planes. They were to keep hopping until they reached Manila in the Philippines. They received word that in crossing Japan the military authorities would not allow them to land on the Island of Formosa. But Japan's warning proved unnecessary. Landing at Macao, Asiatic Portugal, one flyer struck a tree; his comrade's plane was missing. Companions in another plane...
...that belief I gained from reading a treatise on The Metabolism of Ups and Downs which my tutor suggested as a variation from Eighteenth Century Latitudinarianism and Its Effect on the Battle of Manila, or do you take two lumps? No. I cannot like T. S. Eliot for many reasons among which are these...
...significance of Mr. Thompson's appointment is not in Manila, but in Washington. For the Philippine question has totally changed in the quarter century...
...people to decide whether they wish to keep the Philippines for selfish reasons. On this question the great proconsul at Manila expresses no opinion. He proceeds with his -the betterment of the Islands and the Islanders, socially, economically. He does it quietly without forced marches or strained rhetoric. Fit for independence or fit for exploitation ? the General scrupulously keeps to his job of making the Islands...