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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...
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...