Word: mindanao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baker did not work that way. Pershing needed no Senator to present his claims for he did not serve his country that way. Further, if anyone is interested in the record behind Pershing's original promotion from captain to brigadier general he should study the history of Mindanao, where Pershing as a captain had a general officer's command and where he was repeatedly recommended for promotion to brigadier general by his military superiors distant several thousand miles from any political field...
Intense was the mortification of Admiral Bristol when he found that aboard his ship, the small gunboat Mindanao, there was no gun equipped to return the salute with appropriate booms and detonations. Rather than set a machine gun to pip-pip-pipping, the flustered Admiral chose not to return the salute at all, but radioed his apologies to shore...
...Congress should not attempt to interfere with these land laws. Banking. The Federal Reserve system should be extended to the Philippines. Also, Federal land banks should be established to loan money to Filipino farmers at reasonable rates. They now pay from 12% to 30% interest. Moro Provinces. Mindanao and Sulu, inhabited by Mohammedans, should not be separated politically from the rest of the islands,- but U. S. control in these provinces might well be strengthened to prevent Moro-Filipino animosity. Miscellaneous. The Filipino government should withdraw from its private business enterprises immediately. The Jones Act, fundamental law governing the Philippines...
...school where they learn such bad habits as keeping their teeth white instead of black like their parents. Likewise, the Moros dislike both the Filipino and U. S. regimes but of the two prefer the U. S. Emissary Thompson had abundant evidence of this as he landed at Dansalan, Mindanao, where by onetime Filipino Legislature Representative Dau Tunpugao he was likened to "the rising sun" and told "we want to be governed from the beginning to the end of time by the Americans." Governor General Leonard Wood had been there three days before, had left without waiting for the Emissary...
...Bearing in mind the 25,000,000 acres of fertile land on Mindanao, "In 15 years the United States could become independent of the British rubber monopoly, provided the land laws of the Philippine Islands are revised to encourage American investments in an extensive...