Word: pago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the U. S. has gradually increased its domain by battle and bargain until today 137,008,435 persons live under its flag from Point Barrow on the North to Pago-Pago on the South, from St. Croix on the East to Balabac Island on the West.* Last week Congress sent to the White House the first bill in history proposing that the U. S. decrease its territorial empire...
...washout in some overtaxed rain shower machine. After all it does rain in Wisconsin and Cambridge, too. And they have mud in Russia. Besides this precipitation the stage hands are constantly showing off other wonders of cinematic engineering, giving a very Californian air to the island of Pago Pago in the gulf of Borneo...
Among the promising pitching candidates are four lettermen, Charles Devens '32, W. B. MacHale '31, W. K. Pago '31, and B. H. Ticknor '31. Reginald Fincke '32, J. E. Sheldon '32, and S. L. Batchelder '31, are the outstanding catching aspirants...
...Samoans, pure Polynesians of the highest type, no heathens,* since 1900 have been politically suspended in air. The U. S. governs them through its Navy representative at Pago Pago, now Captain Gatewood Sanders Lincoln, who proclaims the laws with the approval of a native parliament. Thus if the inhabitants are citizens of anything it is the Navy, not the U. S. By Federal law they are established neither as subjects of, nor as aliens to, the U. S. Long have they wished it were otherwise. But puzzled Congressmen, unfamiliar with these tiny dots on maps of the Pacific, have...
Last week, however, a commission of Congressmen headed by Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham, chairman of the Territories & Insular Affairs Committee, were aboard the 7,05O-ton cruiser Omaha en route from Honolulu to Pago Pago to consider at first hand the conflicting petitions and reports which Congress has received. While at Honolulu they had held sessions, heard much testimony from Samoans and others...