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Bill Taft: “Over half a million Filipino students are now in the Philippine schools helping to mold the men of the future into a…”

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Over half a million Filipino students are now in the Philippine schools helping to mold the men of the future into a homogeneous people, but there still remain more than a million Filipino children of school age yet to be reached.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft highlights the significant number of Filipino students in schools and the need to reach more children.

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