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...Washington's Boiling Field last week soared a big Army plane carrying Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley on the first leg of his journey to the Philippines. The same day on the other side of the globe Missouri's Senator Harry Bartow ("Beets") Hawes sailed from Manila for the U. S. via China. During his six-week visit to the islands Senator Hawes had united a great mass of Filipinos for immediate independence, whipped their enthusiasm for freedom to the highest pitch in years. It was now Secretary Hurley's mission to find deft ways & means...
Arriving by plane at Seattle, Secretary Hurley would there embark on a 23-day trip across the Pacific to Manila. Before he left Washington he conferred long and solemnly with President Hoover whose eyes and ears he will be in the Philippines. At its next session Congress is more than likely to pass a bill freeing the islands. To be forearmed for such legislation, the President wanted his war chief to make a special survey of Philippine economics and politics. President Hoover in principle opposes independence for the Philippines but last week it was hinted he might, on the strength...
...been Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate and chief of a special independence mission for that purpose to the U. S. Like rivals who would not let each other out of their sight, Mr. Quezon and Secretary Hurley will cross the Pacific on the same steamer, land in Manila together. But between them is no personal animosity. Secretary Hurley took Mr. Quezon to the White House where the little brown gentleman spent 15 minutes bidding President Hoover a chatty farewell...
...unsound foundation for roads"), repeal of the anti-trust laws, leasing of public lands for cultivation, private ownership of communications. But such hostility and displeasure were created by his message that it seemed unlikely that any of his recommendations would be executed by the Legislature. U. S. citizens in Manila blamed this development in part upon the new vitality injected into the independence movement by the visit of Senator Harry Bartow ("Beets") Hawes (TIME, July...
...Last month Senator Hawes's Missouri colleague, Republican Roscoe Conkling Patterson, also visited Manila, went away opposed to immediate Philippine independence...