Word: malacanan
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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...
...erect, military figure made haste to Malacanan Palace, official residence of the Governors General. A knot of small, smart, brown-skinned men-Filipino politicians-were waiting to shake hands. Col. Stimson also greeted some other small, smart, brown-skinned men who were to be his servants. "Oh, yes," he said, as a chef came forward. "Yes, I know Ming. How are you, Ming...
Returning to Malacanan, Governor General Stimson cabled to Washington (and released to the local press) his hope that no tariff would be levied on Philippine sugar. Changing to flannels, he relaxed before the evening's state reception by engaging Eugene Allen Gilmore, who had acted as the Parent's voice from General Wood's death till now, in two sets of tennis, one of which...
...course, overlooks the facts that the Filipinos have their own legislature and that a majority of Island administrative offices are held by natives. Still, the 1926 report of Carmi Thompson on the Islands did criticize the "military atmosphere" surrounding the administration, and the many U. S. Army uniforms around Malacanan Palace (seat of the Philippine government) have been no healing sight for sore Filipino eyes...