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...farm lobbies in Washington put their husky shoulders to the issue did Philippine independence make more than sentimental progress. Cane raisers in Louisiana, beet growers in Utah, were told that duty-free sugar from the Philippines was ruining their business. Philippine cocoanut oil was competing with domestic cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. These miscellaneous economic units were pulled together in one grand and wholly selfish drive to put the Philippines outside the U. S. tariff wall by means of making them a free and foreign country. Louisiana's loud Senator Long frankly...
...Robinson Crusoe. His books (The Royal Road to Romance, The Glorious Adventure, New Worlds to Conquer) have sold more than 250,000 copies, not counting $1 reprints. In his Wright-powered Stearman biplane, The Flying Carpet, piloted by one Moye Stephens, Halliburton rode leisurely from London to Manila. On the way they stopped at Timbuctoo, spent two months with the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, visited Petra, Bagdad, India's Taj Mahal, claimed the first airplane photograph of Mt. Everest (Halliburton publishes a blurry picture which he says was taken at 18,000 ft.), were entertained by Dyak headhunters...
...bearer of advocating all these theories but any sensible individual knows that when you marry you don't merely marry your wife but her family as well." The speaker was Mrs. Derby's older brother Theodore, Governor General of the Philippines, broadcasting to the U. S. from Manila...
Today, however, is too much for the Vagabond. There will be large manila envelopes, there will be schedules and term bills, and tomorrow there will be upperclassmen. For refuge, the Vagabond, will betake, himself to the hills, to the quiet disorder of nature...
Last week it was suddenly arranged for Governor General Roosevelt to remain at Manila throughout the campaign. Secre tary of War Hurley cabled him: "The President has reached the conclusion that you should not leave your duties for the purpose of participating in the campaign. . . . He believes it to be your duty to remain at your post...