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Fruits of Independence. Today, Roxas rises at 6:30 a.m., works seven days a week in Manila's sprawling stucco Malacañan Palace, smokes up to five packs of cigarets (Camels, Kools) a day, sees up to 500 people a week and takes books to bed with him. He is thin, tense, courteous, worldlywise. Eight weeks ago he made a flying trip to the U.S., where he was greeted by Daughter Maria Rosario, a student at Vassar, made an excellent impression in Washington as an energetic, businesslike administrator who realizes that the Philippines' best interests...
Diminuendo. The throttlebottomry of the Philippine Vice Presidency did not diminish Sergio Osmeña's popularity. He lived his quiet life, while dapper Manuel Quezon, quixotic spendthrift, lover of luxury, danced and entertained at Malacañan Palace and junketed about the world. At press receptions, Osmeña served wine, Quezon hard liquor. Osmeña, born with the Chinese hate for the Jap, held his tongue while Quezon was royally received in Japan. When they ran for re-election in 1941, Osmeña polled a higher vote than Quezon...
...dirty Pasig River flowed under part of the Malacañan Palace (an overgrown Filipino stilt-house) in the Philippines. From the porch the Taft boys went swimming, and there Bob was stung by a jellyfish...
...Teahan's qualification for the post is that he is married to Mr. Murphy's sister. Both he and his wife lived in Malacañan Palace, Manila, during the entire regime of Mr. Murphy...
...chief water-main serving the northern part of the city. Fifteen fires by explosions started in various places. Bombed and burned with a loss of 1,000,000 pesos was Parsons Hardware Co., only a quarter of a mile from the great tinder box of the President's Malacañan Palace. Police with riot guns raced through the city trying by a frantic display of energy to conceal the fact that Benigno Ramos' proclamation had completely lulled their suspicions, that they had taken few precautions against such violence, that they had no idea whether Sakdalistas, Communists...