Word: malacanan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Island Problems. The difference between my critics and me is that while they talk, I do things." This recent boast by President Quezon, to a crowd in front of his handsome Malacanan Palace, referred to the fact that, during his absence in the U. S. and Europe, he was running the Philippines from the U. S. by radio telephone messages to his moon-faced little secretary Jorg Vargas, the U. S. Supreme Court in Washington had approved the constitutionality of giving the Philippines the $50,000,000 (100,000,000 pesos) proceeds of the coconut oil processing tax which...
...withstand quakes, are built of bolted timbers. They stood the shock better than old Spanish stone houses and churches outside the town, many of whose walls and roofs crumbled. Before total damage had been estimated, Commonwealth-President Manuel Quezon-who had been dressing for a banquet in his Malacanan palace when the earthquake struck-proclaimed a state of emergency, threatened severe penalties for anyone who tried to utilize the coincidence of the earthquake and the influx of refugees for profiteering...
...Doherty. Finally Quezon abjured Freemasonry, had a chapel built in his house, became to all intents a good Catholic and took to playing golf with the Archbishop on Manila's Wack Wack links. For the duration of the Congress President Quezon invited Cardinal Dougherty to stay in Malacanan Palace, the old residence of Spanish and U. S. Governors General. But before the Cardinal arrived last week the wily brown politico slipped away, bound for Washington, he said, to confer on the date and agenda of a U. S.-Philippine trade and economic conference, which other Filipinos considered...
...made this news: Three years ago the Bulgarian Chauffeurs' Association, in recognition of his many roadside repairs, elected Tsar Boris III their president. Last week the Yugoslav Railwaymen's Union elected Boris "an honorary locomotive engineer" because "he really knows how to drive a locomotive." Groping about Malacanan Palace before dawn, early-rising President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines reached for a light switch, barked his shins in the dark, found his way to a telephone, ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled to end by law. In Florence, Crown Prince...
...British, who claim to know most about bossing "natives," lifted a disapproving eyebrow when it became known that the U. S. was going to let the Filipinos keep house independently. White prestige in the Orient would be definitely lowered when a brown man replaced a white man in Malacanan Palace. One pre-inaugural problem was whether brown Manuel Quezon was to get a 21-gun salute to white Frank Murphy's 19, ultimately solved by giving them both...