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...elect the first President of their Commonwealth was that the result seemed already in the bag. For Bishop Gregorio Aglipay, leader-founder of the Independent Catholic Church of the Philippines, and for General Emilio Aguinaldo, who has always felt the U. S. double-crossed him after he helped wrest the islands from Spain in 1898. a combination of Communists. Sakdalistas and miscellaneous advocates of immediate independence cast less than 250.000 votes. Twice that many went to small, dressy Manuel Quezon, "Father of Philippine Independence," who for the past 20 years has been running the islands' politics pretty much...
Yesterday's development confronts the Corporation with a problem it has dreaded to face for years. Under Mr. Pound's able guidance the Law School has so far successfully resisted all attempts of competitors such as Yale to wrest the legal blue ribbon from Cambridge. Whether it continues to do so depends largely on the choice of a successor...
...Military Paralysis." In 1896 Italy was, as she is today, attempting to wrest a colonial empire from Ethiopia. Then as now, domestic difficulties lay behind the military operations. After several years out of office, Francesco Crispi had staged a strong comeback as Premier of Italy. The new Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland had just been established on the African coast. Though France and Russia were secretly negotiating with Haile Selassie's granduncle, the potent Emperor Menelik, many chiefs questioned his authority and seemed willing Italian allies. Early in the summer of 1895 Premier Crispi had called...
Excited by the newborn alliance between classroom teachers and liberal professors, hotheads tried twice to wrest control of NEA's $800,000 permanent fund from NEA's tight-fisted Trustees, vest it in the Assembly of Delegates. "It's a matter of fair play," New York's small, grey-haired, pink-dressed Johanna Lindlof shrilled into a microphone. The Assembly, unimpressed, twice voted to keep its hands out of its own pocket. Mourned Johanna Lindlof: "The classroom teachers are just puppets and the double-crossing superintendents pull the strings...
...Germany will sign non-aggression treaties with all her neighbors except Lithuania (from whom she is now trying to wrest the city of Memel) because Germany cannot enter into political treaties with a State which disregards the most primitive laws of human society...