Word: manila
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next news was that General Wood, who had returned to Manila from Mindanao before setting out on a visit to Java, had vetoed a bill passed by the Legislature. This bill was to remit penalties for nonpayment of land taxes in 1923. Filipinos, like U. S. farmers, have suffered lately and are crying for aid -more however on account of crop losses than prices-but General Wood did not regard the situation as sufficiently serious to warrant abandonment of penalties for nonpayment of taxes. The Legislature is expected to rise in protest-the Governor having departed for Java. The weathermen...
Storm signals still flying at Manila...
...Machinery, factories, and industry as they are commonly thought of by Americans, scarcely exist, and what there is of them is centered in Manila. There we have factories for the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes, for the refining of a portion of our raw sugar, and for the manufacture of hemp into cloth. But large scale industry is little known there. The development of the country has not reached that stage which requires...
...This population is almost all of Filipino blood, although there are many Americans and there foreigners in manila and its environs. Many Americans have the idea that the Japanese are overflowing in to the Philippine Islands but this is not the cases. In 1921, they numbered about 7,000. The change in climate, however, was not suitable to their temperament, and after a six years stay, they commenced to migrate back to the Japanese islands. At present, they number about...
...Manila is the center of higher education. There, nearly 13,000 students are pursuing the study of law, science, or medicine. The University of Santo Thomas was founded in 1611, 25 years before the founding of Harvard...