Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significance of Mr. Thompson's appointment is not in Manila, but in Washington. For the Philippine question has totally changed in the quarter century...
...national wealth. Rubber perhaps will grow there. Not only so, but 50 or 100 years hence the U. S. may need to import food, and food can be abundantly produced in the Philippines. Vast hills of minerals are also reputed to be lying there untouched. In short, the Philippine question is no longer purely academic...
...people to decide whether they wish to keep the Philippines for selfish reasons. On this question the great proconsul at Manila expresses no opinion. He proceeds with his -the betterment of the Islands and the Islanders, socially, economically. He does it quietly without forced marches or strained rhetoric. Fit for independence or fit for exploitation ? the General scrupulously keeps to his job of making the Islands...
...while Senators tried conscientiously to consider the question on its merits, the legal details were so complex that most of them abandoned the attempt and consulted their political interests. Even then, Republicans found it hard to make decisions. Some Republicans said half a Republican (Brookhart) was better than a Democrat (Steck); other Republicans thought otherwise. Some argued that if Brookhart was unseated he would compete with Regular Republican Cummins, who is up for reelection this fall, and might, by splitting the vote, cause Iowa to have a second Democratic* Senator. It was all most confusing...
...there is no Jesus Christ in this either at the head or along the line," replied Senator Reed. "My friend has gone into Biblical matters, a question I did not understand he was at all familiar with...