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...effacing, always loyal to her husband's ascending career. As Mabel Wellington White of New Haven, Conn., the new second lady of the land married Statesman Stimson in 1893 when he was just entering Elihu Root's law firm and long before he became a statesman. In Manila last year she appeared at a state function in Balin-tawak (native costume). Being second lady holds no social terrors for her. She was well-schooled in official society as the wife of President Taft's Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Number One Man | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

After a period of training in New York men are sent to foreign depots for a brief period--such cities as Manila, Hong Kong, or Tokio, and are then sent out to the end of a railroad or steamboat line, there to serve as the local representative of the Standard system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

...Chefoo, not far away on the Shantung Coast heard firing, and presently four auto trucks piled with Nationalist wounded dashed into the city. No correspondent dared venture out into the battle area, and when Nationalist officials in Chefoo announced a "sweeping victory" they were gravely suspected of exaggeration. From Manila the U. S. cruiser Trenton set out for Chefoo, where three Japanese destroyers and one British gunboat already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bad News | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Manila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Queen into Pantheon | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...United Press was the first to locate Playwright O'Neill in Manila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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