Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most noteworthy White House caller of the week was handsome Philippine High Commissioner Paul McNutt. Colonel McNutt had just made a radio speech strongly recommending that the current plan to give the Philippines independence in 1946 be reconsidered. The proposal had been applauded by Philippine President Manuel Quezon, who, in his public utterances at least, has heretofore been advocating independence not in 1946, but earlier. At the White House Colonel McNutt enlarged on his thesis that "if the Filipinos want it, an indefinite extension of American sovereignty" would be advantageous. The President, said Colonel McNutt, was favorably impressed...
...mishap of the McNutt homecoming occurred in San Francisco when he and his administrative assistant, Wayne Coy, asked for an Army plane to fly them as far as Denver. Three days later, when it was revealed that their pilot. Colonel Davenport Johnson, had been transferred from Hamilton Field to second in command at the Air Corps Technical School at Chanute Field, 111., the War Department maintained it was a "routine" change but reporters jumped to the fairly natural conclusion: that the Administration intended to snub Mr. McNutt...
...that time Paul McNutt was sitting down to a 2,000-place banquet at Indianapolis, where Jack Dolan of Indiana's Democratic Editorial Association and Governor Clifford Townsend garlanded him with effusive laurel wreaths of oratory. Several days later silver-haired Mr. McNutt was in Washington, for an even more stunning event. To Washington, accustomed as it is to flamboyant entertaining, the banquet given Paul McNutt at the Mayflower Hotel was sensational...
...buffet was piled $1,800 worth of cake, pastry and hors d'oeuvres, including the Washington Monument in sugar and a reproduction of Mt. Vernon. On another were the makings of 10,000 cocktails. Standing beside his loyal friend, Senator Sherman Minton, High Commissioner McNutt greeted 3,000 guests as they passed down the receiving line. Conspicuously absent were most higher officials of the New Deal and Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet, which was represented only by Attorney General Homer Cummings and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper. Earlier in the day, in the presence of newsreel photographers, the guest...
...overlooked in the uproar of the somewhat over-punctual celebration of Mr. McNutt's arrival in Washington was his official mission: to tell the President that: 1) Philippine sentiment for immediate independence is declining, 2) that Major General Douglas MacArthur is "doing wonders" with the Philippine Army, and 3) that U. S. residents of the Philippines resent paying income taxes...