Word: malacanan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General MacArthur these were emotion-filled days. His voice broke and his eyes filled as he stood between rusty brocaded drapes at a reception in Malacanan Palace (TIME, Mar. 5) and spoke his joy at the liberation of his beloved Manila, "cruelly punished though it be." Then he smiled, kissed Mrs. Sergio Osmea, wife of the Philippines' President, murmured, "I'm so glad you're home...
...three government buildings (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), Manila was finally free to face the future. General Douglas MacArthur lost no time in turning over the civil administration of the charred city-and of all liberated areas in the Philippines-to the Government of President Sergio Osmeña. In Malacanan Palace this week, MacArthur proclaimed: "You are now a liberated people. . . . On behalf of my Government, I now solemnly declare . . . the full powers under the Constitution are restored to the Commonwealth...
There was still more to be seen in the streets as the staff party visited the Presidential residence, Malacanan Palace. Then Douglas MacArthur stopped for a glass of beer at San Miguel brewery; after that he headed for the front, toward the smoke-shrouded Pasig River...
Ailing Manuel Quezon (he has tuberculosis), President since 1935, did most of his campaigning from bed. He showed himself in his sleek car, behind a motorcycle escort, only when alarmists shouted that he was dying. In his Malacanan Palace, changing from one bright-colored dressing gown to another, the 63-year-old President played bridge, ran off movies for his friends, with his thin fingers deftly manipulated the wires that control Philippine politics...
...huge and lavish Malacanan Palace, upon which he has spent huge sums, sat little "King" Quezon last week. Sixty-two, he still goes dancing occasionally at the Santa Ana cabaret in Manila, an old haunt of his. He has lost none of his love for gaudy gaiety: his clothes are the wonder of the Islands. Frequently he dons jodhpurs for the office, an admiral's uniform for a cruise on his splendid white yacht, once the property of Oilman Edward Doheny. It is a legend in Manila that he planned to have a guard of honor for the Malacanan...