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...busy executive week for President Coolidge. He appointed Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, who had so notably served the administration as a pacifier in Nicaragua, to be governor-general of the Philippines (see THE CABINET). He forced the resignation of William S. Hill of South Dakota from the U. S. Shipping Board by appointing Albert H. Denton, Kansas banker, as successor. The President was vexed with Mr. Hill because the latter had indiscreetly accepted a loan from a member of a private shipping concern. Then there was the new $725,000,000 Navy program. See ARMY & NAVY) to be finally approved...
President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate, Philippine Senator Sergio Osmena and Resident Philippine Commissioner Pedro Guevara, with congratulations on the appointment of Governor-General Stimson. Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine to present Civil War Veterans (see THE STATES...
...keep the Philippines under the War Department yet give them a civilian rather than military administration? The solution was: Appoint as successor to the late Governor General Leonard Wood a civilian with military experience, a soldierly statesman. A man that notably suited the requirements, was Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, practitioner of law under Elihu Root, of athletics and politics under Theodore Roosevelt, of administration under William Howard Taft, of mediation under Calvin Coolidge. Last week Col. Stimson accepted the post...
...Department was glad. Col. Stimson once a cavalry sergeant, ran the War Department in 1911-1913. Filipinos were glad. Col. Stimson has been much among them and last spring he declared he favors developing responsible Filipino's political parties, choosing the Governor General's cabinet from the majority party and using the Governor General's veto-power only to prevent dereliction. U. S. business was glad. Educated at Yale and Harvard, cultivated in Manhattan, Col. Stimson has a conservative backround and, by his pacification of Nicaragua last spring, his ability has been demonstrated. Mrs. Leonard Wood...
...current issues of two weeklies there are charges that in two countries which during the past year have been the scenes of American interest, trouble has still been going on without benefit of publicity. The Nation, always a trouble-maker, quotes first Mr. Frank Stimson, President Coolidge's representative in Nicaragua, as reporting to his chief on the fourteenth of May that the insurrection in that troubled country was ended; and follows with a list of casualties since that date in the continued fighting between the Marines and the natives; fighting which however necessary, has been all but completely ignored...