Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Filipino majority, that the periodic Moro uprisings come from no other cause. It proposes in the name of not only wisdom but justice that the Moro part of the Islands be given a separate government under the U. S.-in brief that U. S. try to solve the Philippine problem as the British solved the problem of Ireland. But General Aguinaldo as a good Filipino could not stomach the proposition, said...
...resolution directing a joint committee to receive bids and determine the best method of disposing of the Government's power-fertilizer producing political white elephant. The committee reported (TIME, May 10, MUSCLE SHOALS), but not unanimously, and Congress just couldn't find time to settle the difficult problem at this session...
Alien Property. The property of enemy aliens, seized during the War, still lies in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian. Bills for disposing of it, and for settling the cognate problem-satisfaction of claims of U. S. citizens against Germany-languished amid disputations in committee...
Postal Rates. When the last Congress increased and modified postal rates (to get funds for increasing the salaries for postal employes) it was announced that the rates were temporary and would be altered again at this session of Congress. Instead the problem was postponed another year, since the committeemen who had to face it declared they needed more time...
...What is Congressman Bacon's solution of the Moro problem...