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...blow, bells to ring in the city of Manila. In Washington a few minutes before (noon of the day before) President Roosevelt, beaming his best smile, exclaimed: "This is a great day for you and for me!'' The gentlemen he was addressing were two Filipinos, Senators Manuel Quezon and Elpidio Quirino, who had just watched him sign the McDuffie-Tydings bill offering to make the Philippines a Commonwealth for ten years, to grant them independence thereafter. Everybody beamed but no one was genuinely elated. The McDuffie-Tydings is the old Hawes-Cutting bill (which the Philippines rejected last...
...follow suit. This McDuffie Bill is a revised version of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Bill rejected by the Philippine Legislature last year, and it grants the Islands an even more complete independence. The changes in the Bill have been favorably commented upon by the President of the Philippine Senate, Manuel Quezon, and other prominent leaders in that legislature, and it is to be expected that the Bill will be immediately granted the required sanction by the Filipinos...
...newcomer to the U. S. scene, has written only three books (These Restless Heads, Special Delivery, Smirt). But they bear a marked likeness to the 18 volumes of one James Branch Cabell, who announced in 1929 that he would write no more of the Biography of the Life of Manuel. Now 54, Author Cabell has found it impossible to change his spots. A much-gnawed bone of contention, with little marrow left. Author Cabell can still rouse his faithful followers to delight. Considered by himself and his admirers the most polished of U. S. writers, Cabell is often accused...
...little cash, Cuba's President Ramon Grau considered it more important to pay his Army last week than to send to the U. S. $3,950,000 due in interest and arrears on public works loans contracted by deposed Dictator Machado. Bluntly Cuban Secretary of the Treasury Colonel Manuel Despaigne announced that Cuba would default on these obligations "until such time as the whole situation can be thoroughly discussed ... to determine which part if any [of the obligations] is legal." He declared that the $62,000,000 principal of the loans was secured by special taxes from which...
Samuel Adams '37 defeated Verge 10-15, 16-14, 16-14, 15-14; Manuel Johnson '37 defeated Manly 18-17, 15-9, 15-11; Rolf Kaltenborn '37 defeated Barry 15-5, 8-15, 15-17, 15-8, 15-11; Branca (T) defeated John S. Thompson, Jr. '37 9-15, 15-9, 15-8, 16-13; Lawrence Ross '37 defeated Merrill...