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Last week a smart launch detached itself and cut shoreward from the side of the S. S. President McKinley as she steamed into Manila Bay. From the launch, which seemed the liner's emissary, stepped Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, emissary of the parent U. S. to the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: On the Luneta | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Inauguration ceremonies were held on the Luneta, one of the heights overlooking Manila Bay. After the oath, Governor General Stimson made a speech, portions of which his small, smart, brown-skinned audience took away behind impassive countenances to ponder upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: On the Luneta | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Radio Corporation of America (in 1927 direct radio services were inaugurated with the Dutch West Indies, Philippines, Northern South America, Porto Rico, Belgium, Hongkong via Manila, & Turkey)-$11,799,650. Previous year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: More Earnings | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Pearl Harbor, the great strategic naval base of the Pacific, has been erected at the crossroads of the ocean.* Ships from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama, Auckland in New Zealand, Sydney in New South Wales (Australia), Hong Kong, Yokohama, Manila arrive and set forth daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hawaii Prospers | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...other from Porto Rico have just been added to the schedule of the University debating team, it was announced last night by A. F. Reel '28, president of the Harvard Debating Council. The speakers from the Philippine Islands will represent the University of the Philippines, which is located at Manila. The other team will come from the University of Porto Rico, at Rio Piedras. At the same time the names were announced of the next two colleges against which the University speakers will debate in the second series of the Intercollegiate triangular debates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILIPPINE AND PORTO RICAN TEAMS TO MEET DEBATERS | 1/24/1928 | See Source »

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