Word: moro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time over 80,000 men in the Philippines. While the Insurrection was going on the campaign in China was fought by regulars from the Philippines and marines and sailors from the fleet. The action was continuous from April 21, 1898, up to July 4, 1902, and in the Moro country for years afterwards. . . . Generals Bell, Pershing and Funston were all made Generals while fighting in the Philippine Insurrection, but as all of this came out of the Spanish War and the same men did it all, and all of it is called the "Spanish War" by most everyone, there...
When Tarhata Kiram, flapper Philippine princess, married a Moro chieftain, newspapers printed columns, made sure that the U. S. knew. Last week, other things far more troublous to Governor General Leonard Wood, claimed his attention...
There was revolt in the village of Jolo on the island of Sulu in the territory of the Philippines. Two hundred Moros, led by Datu Tahil and his wife, Princess Tarhata Kiram, who is daughter of the Sultan of Sulu and a onetime University of Illinois coed, vexed the constabulary. Not wishing to shed the blood of her people, Princess Tarhata set forth last week to talk peace with Governor General Leonard Wood at Manila, to. ask him for a Moro governor for the island of Sulu...
...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...
...Bacon bill, now before the House of Representatives, would provide for a separate legislature for the Moro provinces, and thus give them a sort of "home rule...