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After he recalled Henry Lewis Stimson from Manila in March to be his No. 1 Cabinet member, President Hoover searched the land for a suitable Governor General of the Philippines. The job pays well, $18,000 per year. It has served as a stepping stone to higher Federal office (William Howard Taft, Statesman Stimson). There were plenty of applicants...
Francis Marian Goodwin Jr. '31 of Washington, D. C., is the winner of the Sophomore competition for the position of Second Assistant Tennis Manager; Travers Denton Carmen Jr. '31 of Newton is second, and Robert Knox Vincent of Manila, Philippine Islands is appointed Freshman manager, according to an announcement made yesterday by J. O. Ross '29, University tennis manager...
...Seeing in TIME that the Archbishop of Canterbury was yachting on the luxurious Corsair with Multi-Millionaire Morgan, reminded me of the late Bishop Brent, of New York State, and a different scene. I was with Major General Henry C. Corbin on the Benguet road going from Baguio to Manila in an army (Doherty) wagon. At noon we outspanned for luncheon. Smoking in the shade after chicken and ham and iced wine, we descried an ass coming up the steep ascent with a dusty figure of a man plodding beside the beast. "Those squaw men disgrace America in the Philippines...
...outstanding but little heard of contributions to improving conditions in the Philippine Islands was the establishing of the Baguio Boys' School at Baguio, a summer resort high in the mountains north of Manila. This school was established about 1907, if I remember correctly, and the first headmaster was Dr. Remsen B. Ogilby, now president of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. At the time this school was established, educational facilities in the Islands were practically nil for American youngsters whose parents were in the Islands for military or commercial reasons. At that time, I remember going to a Catholic school...
George Ade, U. S. funnyman (Fables in Slang, The Sultan of Sulu, etc.) touring the world, reached Manila last week just as the aged Sultan of Sulu came to town. Said the Sultan of Sulu: "I don't know him." Said Author Ade: "Shucks, I wrote a whole musical comedy about him without an introduction. I pictured the Sultan as endowed with a remarkable sense of humor...