Word: malacanan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When U. S. Vice President Garner, Secretary of War Dern, Speaker of the House Byrns and a large delegation of Congressmen and Senators assemble in Manila for the Commonwealth's inaugural, they will be ushering into old, Spanish-built Malacanan Palace the first Filipino to occupy that seat of government. For brown men it will be a great triumph to see the Governor General moved out of the palace, demoted to Resident High Commissioner. Further loss to white face in the Orient was the fact that until July 4, 1946, when the Philippines become absolutely autonomous, the natives will...
...President nominated Governor General Frank Murphy of the Philippines to the post of High Commissioner of the Philippine Commonwealth when that job comes into existence about Nov. 15. In Manila, Filipinos announced that when they take Malacanan Palace away from Governor Murphy for the use of their new President they will give the U. S. a site on which to build its High Commissioner a home...
These words, tapped from a Manila-Detroit telephone call by short-wave radio sets, crackled into the home of many an eavesdropping Philippine resident. They recognized the voice of Bachelor Frank Murphy, their U. S. Governor-General, knew that he was talking about his official residence, low-rambling Malacanan Palace,* gathered that he was talking to a crony in the U. S. city of which he was once Mayor. His transpacific conversation was inadvertently public because the telephone company had not yet installed its "privacy bays" to scramble outgoing messages...
...Malacanan Palace was built in the 18th Century as the country house of a Spanish grandee, became a "provisional palace'' in 1863 when a Spanish Governor moved...