Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...review of 13,000 Philippine infantry troops parading to celebrate the Commonwealth's second anniversary, President Quezon said grandly to U. S. High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt: "This army that has paraded before us, sir, is not only the Philippine Army, it is your Army because under the Independence Act the President of the United States, whom you represent, has power to call it out in defense of the American flag and also because the Filipino people would gladly do so in recognition of what you have done...
...major administrative item is $22,000 a year to the National Commander ($10,000 salary, $12,000 expenses). At least four Legion Commanders have used the post as a springboard to major-league political jobs. Hanford MacNider (1921) and Alvin Owsley (1922) became U. S. Ministers. Paul V. McNutt (1928) became Governor of Indiana, is now High Commissioner to the Philippines. Louis Arthur Johnson (1932) is Assistant Secretary...
Cigaret-Lighter. One of the first things Commissioner McNutt did on arriving in Manila last spring was to demote President Quezon down the toast list at Philippine banquets. Manuel Quezon's Philippines Herald promptly took to editorial baiting of High Commissioner McNutt. First indication that President Quezon's conversations with President Roosevelt, Secretaries Hull and Woodring (who, it was again rumored last week, would soon resign as Secretary of War to replace High Commissioner McNutt at Manila) had convinced him that it would be wiser to get along amiably with Commissioner McNutt took the form of a speech...
...training caused them to forget their native manners so far as to fail to light President Quezon's after-dinner smoke, he decided to go to the U. S. without military escort. By last week, all Manila knew that President Quezon was really prepared to consider Commissioner McNutt as Boss. On the occasion of his homecoming call, he graciously lighted the McNutt cigaret...
Before he left the U. S., Commissioner McNutt had picked and seen installed as his successor M. Clifford Townsend, who is currently building a strong political machine of his own. Recently Governor Townsend. like Senator Minton strongly pro-New Deal, predicted that when Indiana's anti-New Deal Senator Frederick Van Nuys came up for re-election in 1938 he would be roundly defeated. Last week Senator Van Nuys seized the opportunity given him by his Senatorial colleague to make it clear that if he was in the bad graces of Governor McNutt's successor, he still hoped...