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Welterweights (147 Ibs.) have only one champion, Chicago's clever 27-year-old Barney Ross who has held the title before and since he abdicated his lightweight title two years ago. Current ranking contender is fierce-faced Ceferino Garcia, a Filipino sugar-cane cutter armed with a looping right-hand punch supposedly suggestive of cane cutting and known as the "bolo punch." Two years ago in a nontitle fight Garcia knocked Ross down in the first round, but Ross outboxed him for the decision on that occasion. He did so again in a second (over-the-weight) meeting...
When a Philippine plebiscite last spring voted in favor of suffrage for women by a 400,000 to 40,000 majority, only one more wrinkle remained before Filipino women became enfranchised. This was the actual framing of a law to allow them to vote. Last week, the wrinkle was ironed out in characteristic Filipino fashion...
...Filipino males pay a head tax of $1 apiece. The tax receipts have been the means whereby voters are identified. Philippine President Manuel Quezon last week announced that he would veto the woman suffrage bill unless it imposed a poll tax on women, recommended 25? a head as a minimum tariff for Filipino females. Next day, while Filipino suffragettes sputtered with indignation that a tax should go with the right to vote, the National Assembly passed a bill which evaded the question of the poll tax by substituting a different method of identifying voters. If President Quezon signs it, Filipino...
...Left politicians, who are agreed that the Quezon presidency is in effect dictatorship. To forestall any chance that the Popular Front might develop a dangerous opposition among Philippine workers, Manuel Quezon proposed to up wages 62? a day in Manila, 25? in the provinces. Political observers familiar with Filipino political tactics construed this as a classic example of Quezon's political guile. During his trip to the U. S. Manuel Quezon argued in Washington and broadcast to his constituents speeches in favor of advancing the date of Philippine national independence to 1938 or 1939. To distribute to masses...
Lest his constituents doubt the sincerity of this statement, wily Manuel Quezon took another way of expressing his change of tactics. A firm rule of Filipino etiquet is that when a superior places a cigaret between his lips, a subordinate must quickly strike a match to light it for him. President Quezon is accustomed to having half a dozen of his Cabinet members pop up on their feet every time he takes out his cigaret case. Last winter when he wanted to take a military aide to the U. S. with him, he invited a group of West Point-trained...