Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Colonel Carmi Alderman Thompson, onetime member of the Ohio Gang, now personal researcher for the Big White President, continued his critical observations from aboard the Filipino- financed Bustamente (TIME, July 26, et seq.). Slowly the little steamer pushed through hundreds of emerald islets in a turquoise sea beneath azure heavens-on, on to Cuyo Island, veritable Eden in the Sulu Sea. Col. Thompson, pleased, ambled beneath outlandish cocoanut palms, low luscious mangoes. No phones, newspapers, railroads, trolleys or automobiles marred this hot perfection. Ah, to be a barefoot native! . . . But business pressed. Mr. Thompson reluctantly doffed his white...
Died. Henry Thompson Douglas, 88, "last surviving Confederate general;" at Providence Forge...
Moros. Senator Hadjib Butu, representing Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago (where Moros predominate), also visited Oracle Thompson. He promised to introduce him to the Sultan of Sulu when he traveled southward; he told how Mohammedan Moros preferred U. S. rule to that of Christian Filipinos. Said Senator Butu: "The situation we face reminds me of the story of Joseph and his brethren in your Bible. The Moro looks up to the American as his father and upon the Filipino as his brother. Because of the love between Joseph and his father, his brothers threw him into a pit and left...
General Aguinaldo. Colonel Thompson reminisced on the Spanish-American war with the old insurrector, General Aguinaldo, who has now become a leader for the Americanization of the Philippines. He believed that many of the Filipinos would hate to have the Americans leave. Petite brown ballarinas had begun to like U. S. soldiers, sailors, wealthy businessmen, dance halls, automobiles from Detroit, clothes from Chicago. There is a possibility that General Aguinaldo may come out of his retirement to lead Americanists if Filipinos Quezon and Roxas continue their noncooperation policy toward Governor General Wood...
Rubber. While there seems to be a difference of opinion concerning exactly what the different peoples of the Philippines want, nevertheless U. S. business men have a substantial suspicion that Colonel Carmi A. Thompson wants to find a few hundred thousand acres for the cultivation of rubber by American industries...