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...fleshy U. S. sportsman, Missouri's Democratic Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, author of a pending bill in Congress to free the islands.* He stood on the steps of Manila's Legislative Building to receive ovations, watch the fun. Beside him stood Nevada's Senator Key Pittman, many a Filipino official. For two hours Senator Hawes watched 50,000 natives file by-school children, college students, labor unionists, club women, civic workers, politicians. Loud and long were the cheers for Senator Hawes. Said he afterwards: "That turnout convinced me the Filipinos want independence. If anyone doesn...
This summer Manila has become a mecca for junketing Senators and Repre- sentatives. When Missouri's Senator Hawes, author of the pending independence bill, landed, he was almost overwhelmed with native demonstration of affection and delight. Other Philippine visitors included Senators Oddie and Pittman of Nevada, Patterson of Missouri and Vandenberg of Michigan; Representatives Gibson of Vermont and Dowell of Iowa. Most of them went to the islands with their minds made up for independence. After their visits all except Representative Dowell began to think that freedom might be an economic catastrophe...
...opium to his Treasury chariot, he may find a way to balance the Chinese budget for some time to come, may find opium an aid in standing off the U. S. silver producers who want to unload on China a silver loan (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week Senator Key Pittman of silver-surplussed Nevada announced in Washington that he will sail next month to confer with Dr. Soong...
...special Senate Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources, made their first report to fellow-Senators. They announced that the U. S. must do more if its animals are to be kept from extinction. The Senators were Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut (chairman), Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, Key Pittman of Nevada, Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, Peter Norbeck of South Dakota. After finishing a trip into Midwest and Western States and along the Canadian border, they announced that two more years would be necessary before they could become completely wise about conservation...
...Washington the Senate's subcommittee on trade with China prepared to release this week its recommendation for a silver loan to China. Chairman of the subcommittee is Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, famed "silver state." China is the only great power with currency on the "silver standard," and last week the Shanghai dollar (nominally worth 50 ?) continued its decline to a new low-for-all-time...