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...Philippine Senate and Senator Sergio Osmena, his sphinxlike senior partner in the Nationalist Party-arrived in Washington to see President Coolidge. They had bundled themselves up in unwonted overcoats crossing the Pacific to a chilly continent. But they had smiled confidently on the trip because when they left Manila (TIME, Oct. 17). They had heard that President Coolidge favored transferring the Philippines from military rule under the War Department to civilian administration under a special bureau of the Interior Department. This transfer was second only to Island Independence in the hearts of Statesmen Quezon and Osmena...
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...
...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...