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...Quezon, the little brown cricket who for three years has been the Philippine Commonwealth's first President, passed his 60th birthday last week. Like royalty, he celebrated his birthday by a two-day national party-speeches, parades, festivals. The party wound up with a giant ball in Manila to raise-in more democratic tradition-anti-tuberculosis funds. To punctuate the festivities he addressed 40,000 students & teachers. His subject: the state of the Philippine soul...
...flares and fingering the dark water with her searchlights. Late the next afternoon, 400 miles east of San Bernardino Strait in the Philippines, she came upon a vast patch of gasoline and oil, like rainbow-tinted gossamer rising and falling on the Pacific swells. She radioed her discovery to Manila. Airmen guessed that under the oil patch, in 5,000 fathoms, were 15 dead men and a handsome $450,000 airplane, the Hawaii Clipper...
...Japanese officials that Japan had no designs on the islands when the Philippines obtain their independence from the U. S. in November 1945, as now scheduled. The U. S. Philippine Ordinance expressly forbids the Filipinos any direct participation in foreign affairs until 1945 and, as he left Tokyo for Manila late last week. President Quezon vehemently denied that he had been engaged in any "security" mission. Nevertheless, the Japanese Foreign Office frankly admitted that Foreign Minister Ugaki, who is highly touted as his country's next Premier, had assured the Philippine executive that the still unborn nation "need have...
...steaming bamboo hut near Manila, a lean, bronzed young U. S. chemist sat with a small native child on his knees. The child lay rigid, its face, arms and legs swollen, the rest of its body wasted. The child whimpered at the burning pain in his heart and intestines. He was dying of beriberi, ancient Oriental disease. The chemist thrust a few drops of an extract from rice hulls between the child's lips. Almost instantly the boy revived, and young Chemist Robert Runnels Williams, India-born son of U. S. missionaries, knew that he had saved a life...
...after being bound apprentice to the family firms in Paris, London, Frankfurt, went to the U. S. firm. For at least the past 30 years he has run it in an arbitrary, single-minded fashion. He floated a vast amount of foreign loans, financed railroads, built power plants in Manila and a railroad in Bolivia. But the War upset the applecart of international finance. In 1922 Speyer's London firm dissolved; in 1934 the Lazard Speyer-Ellissen banks in Berlin and Frankfurt dissolved. Speyer & Co. also had its troubles in the U. S. Its share in foreign loans dwindled...