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...chance did not already know, the stocky man promptly filed it in his inexhaustible mental library. His interest was professional, not queasy, for he was Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. He and his wife .Annette were bound for Manila, thence for Australia and New Zealand, China and Japan in quest of big game. That they can and do often make such trips is testimony to the rich success of Publisher Fawcett's simple plan: to harness the smoking-room story and make it work for him. Further testimony...
...Fergusons won the governorship of Texas in 1924, he was recommended to the White House by no less an ardent Democrat than Texas Senator Tom Connally. Porto Ricans proclaimed the good fortune by Filipinos to get such a Vice Governor as Dr. Butte. Impressed, Politicos Quezon and Osmena in Manila announced that they were quite satisfied. President Hoover felt that he might well congratulate himself. ¶ "We need to be more humble," President Hoover was told at Quaker meeting by Miss Muriel Lester, London slum worker. ¶ With his special message on the World Court written and ready to send...
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When last July President Hoover named Mr. Roosevelt as No. 2 man to Governor General Dwight Filley Davis at Manila, a great hubbub was raised against him by leaders of the Philippine independence movement. A New York Times editorial writer, Mr. Roosevelt had visited the islands in 1925, investigated conditions, published a book (The Philippines, a Treasure and a Problem) which incensed politicos. Mr. Roosevelt was denounced as an enemy of the island people. After his appointment his book was burned in protest. Because the Senate had failed to confirm his nomination, he did not travel to Manila to take...
...Sept. 12, 1918, the new wooden steamer Dumaru sailed from San Fran- cisco with a cargo of gasoline and explosives for Honolulu, Guam and Manila. In her Wartime camouflage she looked "like a clown on an evil sea." The grisly tale of what happened to her and her crew was told to Author Lowell Thomas by one of the survivors, Fritz Harmon, first assistant engineer...