Word: buencamino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saddest men in the court room was little Felipe Abreu ("Goodfellow Philip") Buencamino, 53, whip of the Philippine Assembly, longtime confidant of President Quezon. Because he offered to cooperate in the bond redemption plan for an alleged $50,000, he was denounced by the Federal prosecutor as the "Judas of the Philippine Assembly." Leaving last December to face the SEC inquiry, he told loyal followers: "I wish to break a little confidence which the Chief Executive (Quezon) has told me. ... He said he . . . did not believe me guilty of the accusations laid at my door." Last week he was convicted...
...Delegate of the Philippines, Senator Felipe Buencamino, realizing that Sugar was in no sense the point of this Sugar Conference and that he could have no possible role in the hotel-room sessions of the Great Powers and their European satellites, left London early Thursday morning for what he called a "little Paris weekend." Ambassador Davis, Foreign Secretary Eden, French Minister of National Economy Charles Spinasse, German Ambassador von Ribbentrop and Dutch Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn talked about lowering tariffs, applying brakes to the Rearmament race, somehow dealing with Europe's debts to the U. S. before there...
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