Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carmi A. Thompson (member of the onetime "Ohio gang"), held in awe by many a Filipino as the Personal Representative of Big White President Coolidge, has come home. He landed at Seattle, Wash., last week after some five months of poking through tropic seas, doffing his white helmet to Sulu chieftains, smiling blandly at high-strung Filipino politicos. Much more than all that is recorded judiciously in his comprehensive report to the President on the economic and governmental condition of the Philippines...
...expected that Colonel Thompson's report will urge, in effect, the striking of a bargain with the Philippines which will make them more restive but no more independent. Probable Filipino advantages to be recommended are: 1) Transfer of U. S. supervision from the War Department to a special bureau in one of the civil departments; 2) Replacement of Governor General Leonard Wood's "Cavalry Cabinet" of military advisers by U. S. civilian departmental experts; 3) Internal self-government with an elective Filipino Governor General to be allowed within a decade, provided the Filipinos behave themselves in the meantime...
Track: Captain, E. C. Haggerty '27, Manager, S. E. Gleason '27, Assistant Manager, B. T. Thompson...
Meanwhile, anti-Wood tongues in Manila worked out their wrath discussing who would probably be chosen as the Governor General's successor. Mentioned were W. Cameron Forbes, onetime (1909-13) Governor General, and Col. Carmi A. Thompson, personal representative of President Coolidge (TIME, April 12), now on his way to Washington with a bulbous report. It is known that Governor General Wood will leave Manila late in January to go to discuss the Philippines with President Coolidge, but there is scant reason to believe that he intends to resign. His health, which has been poor since an operation...
Though U. S. newsorgans headlined THOMPSON NEAR DEATH, it is exceedingly probable that the Chinese dynamiters could under no circumsances have been persuaded to blow up his train. They were spies of the Cantonese War Lord Chang Kaishek. Their intent was to cut off supplies from the Shanghai War Lord, Sun Chuan-feng. Well-informed of the movements of the Big White President's friend, they let him pass, mindful that his influence would bear directly upon whether the U. S. ever recognizes the Cantonese Government, recently extended by the conquests of Chang Kai-shek to include most of central...