Word: moro
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Dates: during 1912-1912
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Major J. P. Finley, U. S. A., speaking in the Living Room of the Union last night on "Moro Problems in the Southern Philippines, and the American Method of Solution," compared the inefficient rule of the Spaniards from 1580 to 1898, with that of the United States army during the last fifteen years in which remarkable industrial and educational development has taken place. The army, in fact, has done a greater work of civilization than all the other forces which have been working in the Islands for the last 350 years combined...
Major J. P. Finley, U. S. A., will speak in the Living Room this evening at 8.15 o'clock on "Moro Problems in the Southern Philippines, and the American Method of Solution." Major Finley, during a term as governor of Zamboanga, a city in Mindanao, one of the islands of the Philippine group, has succeeded in conducting a social transformation among ignorant, superstitions, and warlike Moros by the application of practical business ideas. By means of public gatherings at which the rudimentary principles of government and economics were explained to the natives, and by the establishment of a Moro exchange...
...evening Major John P. Finley, U. S. A., will speak in the Living Room on "Moro Problems in the Southern Philippines, and the American Method of Solution." During a term of several years as governor of one of the Moro provinces, Major Finley made a comprehensive study of the aborigines and the problems involved in their government. All interested in the problems of our territorial possessions should attend...
Besides his army service Major-General Wood has had experience in the insular service as military governor of Cuba until the transfer of that government to the Cuban Republic in 1892, as governor of the Moro Province, and as commander of the Philippine division...
...November 12, Major J. P. Finley will speak. Major Finley was for some years the governor of the Moro provinces in the Philippine Islands...