Word: manila
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Miguel Romauldez of Manila, to pay respects...
...President having signified his willingness to receive them, President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate and his fellow zealot for Philippine independence, Senator Sergio Osmena, started from Manila with an entourage to call at the White House. ( President & Mrs. Coolidge quietly celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary. Perhaps they read in the current issue of the ever-embattled Nation the following tirade about their 21-year-old son: "Who is John Coolidge? To what public office has he ever been elected or appointed? All we know about John is that he is a student in Amherst College and happens...
...Bingham's audience was all attention as he proceeded to relate how, a few weeks previously, he had been invited as guest of honor to a banquet in the Army & Navy Club of Manila. Mr. Bingham had asked whether outstanding native politicians, such as President Manuel Quezon of the Philipine Senate or Senator Sergio Osmena, independence leader, would be present...
...Certainly not," snorted the Army & Navy Club of Manila, and proceeded to instruct Mr. Bingham that no Filipinos (except, of course, servants) were admitted within the doors of the Army & Navy Club of Manila...
...company around Governor Farrington's table frowned approvingly and felt sure that no such contretemps could possibly occur in Hawaii. They nodded sagely as Mr. Bingham said: "I want to tell you right now that if a half-dozen of the prominent white people of Manila were to invite a few of the cultured and prominent Filipinos to be their guests at a tea, the agitation for Philippine independence would die right then and there...