TY  - ADVS
TI  - Dwight Filley Davis
KW  - Americans
KW  - Malacañang
KW  - 1929
KW  - 1931
KW  - economic
KW  - governors-general
KW  - legislature
KW  - political agriculture
KW  - sine die
KW  - vice governor butte
N1  - The governor-general of the Philippines (1929-1931), in light suit, with his vice governor, George C, Butte.  In 1931, Davis vetoed 88 percent of the 281 bills the legislature had passed in its sine die sessions.  He urged the legislature to concentrate on economic instead of political questions, citing the Philippines'' agricultural backwardness compared to its Asian neighbors; With prints
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