Word: morose
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The two friends were talking about another U. S. colonial venture at the other end of the world, which had not prospered so well. In particular, the southern part of the Philippine archipelago known as the Department of Mindanao, stretching to Borneo, was in a state of completely uncontrolled savagery...
Where are the candidates of five years ago? Harding is dead. Requiescat. Cox exists. Requiescat. Coolidge sits in the White House, where there is no rest. Lowden is busy farming and perhaps planning for the campaign of '28. McAdoo resides not many miles from San Francisco, where he failed...
He said that railroads, mines and agriculture belonging to the Government should be placed under private control. He said that expenses had been reduced, revenues increased $5,000,000, making it possible for the Government soon to "go upon a cash basis." He said that remarkable progress had been made...
If the Collectivists refused to cooperate with him in governing the Islands, then there was no need of his presence during the session of the Legislature. He went to Mindanao where the Moros had massacred a detachment of Filipino constabulary. Instead of returning he sent for his aides and a...
"At the basis lies old antipathy between Moros and Christian Filipinos, and the objection of the former to being governed locally by the latter. This is the principal basic cause of unrest in the Moro Provinces. The Mohammedan period of religious devotion, which lasts from now until the tenth of...