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...list of countries from which students have come to Harvard this year is as follows: Abyssinia, Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Greece, Guatemala, Hawaii, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, India, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Philippine Islands, Poland, Porto Rico, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, and Venezuela...
...Commerce building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Chairman Meyer received 2,500 letters asking for jobs, inquiring about loans. Busiest man of all was Mr. Dawes, who quickly found himself a Washington apartment. ¶Last week at the age of 37 James Rumsey Beverley of Amarillo, Tex. found himself Governor of Porto Rico by appointment of the President. On the other side of the world George Charles Butte. Vice Governor of the Philippines, received the news with vast pride. His political protege had made good. Mr. Beverley studied law under Dr. Butte at the University of Texas. A born Democrat, he turned...
...Manila. Mr. Beverley stepped up into his job. Last week he stepped up to the top of the insular Government with the transfer of Theodore Roosevelt to the Philippines as Governor General. A competent administrator, Governor Beverley speaks Spanish like a native, plays with Boy Scouts, is pleasing to Porto Ricans. His job: to keep peace among the five political parties in Porto Rico, and keep alive his predecessor's program of economic rehabilitation. ¶ President Hoover signed a bill adding $125,000.000 to the capital of the Federal Land Bank system...
Object of their merriment was Mrs. Longworth's halfbrother, Theodore Roosevelt. Back from a capable administration of Porto Rico, he had been appointed Governor General of the Philippines, was now posing for sound films with brown Sergio Osmena, president pro tem. of the Philippine Senate. With him to his new post was going his daughter Grace, 20, who takes after her mother and who has been studying typing and shorthand to fit herself to be one of her father's secretaries...
...Davis, who has spent almost three years at Manila, wanted to join his invalid wife in Paris and "get a little rest." Sixty minutes after his resignation President Hoover, as everyone expected, nominated Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico to be Governor General of the Philippines. In Washington, Col. Roosevelt declared he was "very deeply grateful." Most Porto Rican politicos felt the same...