On the record
Of all the distinguished men who had filled that office none exhibited a more inflexible firmness than Robinson in holding the public purse strings.
Source
gutenberg.orgDe Alexander: “Of all the distinguished men who had filled that office none exhibited a more inflexible firmness than Robinson in…”
Editor's note · Context
This quote praises the steadfastness of a former comptroller, emphasizing their integrity in financial matters.
Share
More from De Alexander
Enlightened and persuasive discussion of the negro problem in its present phases and aspects.
He writes of the Filipinos as he found them, and with the knack of the true investigator, has avoided falling in with the political views of any party or faction.
A keen, exhaustive and merciless criticism of the whole Philippine experiment....
Human, dramatic, interesting, absorbing, there is philosophy of national and political life back of it--a philosophy which not only furnished interpretation of past events, but offers guidance for the future....
Other voices in this conversation
