Dean Conant Worcester, D.Sc., F.R.G.S. was an American zoologist, public official, and authority on the Philippines, born at Thetford, Vermont, and educated at the University of Michigan . From 1899 to 1901 he was a member of the United States Philippine Commission; thenceforth until 1913 he served as secretary of the interior for the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands. In 1910, he founded the Philippine General Hospital, which has become the hospital for the poor and the sick. On October 30, 1908, El Renacimiento, a daily newspaper in Spanish, published an editorial written by... Fidel A. Reyes , its city editor, titled Aves de Rapiña , which denounced an American official for taking advantage his office in exploiting the resources of the country for his personal gains. Although the editorial did not mention names, Worcester felt that he was the public official referred to and filed a libel case against Teodoro Kalaw and Martin Ocampo, editor and publisher, respectively.
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