Word: manuel
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Premier Alvaro de Castro gave up trying to form a Cabinet and tendered his resignation for the second time in ten days to President Manuel T. Gomes...
...wrong and he did not think that his grandfather would have liked his memory associated with it. Allegedly this is a great disappointment to the Bolshecrats, who had intended to spend $500,000 for the erection of a Marx Monument in Red Square, Moscow. On dit in Paris that Manuel, onetime King of Portugal, and the rotund ex-Shah of Persia went to Zelli's famed Montmartre cabaret, drank champagne, talked to the pretty girls. Butted in a sheik-like youth, asked permission to sit down. The monarchs assented graciously, the three talked much and at the time...
...charges, the Philippines. The Collectivist Party dominates in its demands that the Archipelago be set adrift, be given complete independence. One phase of this demand has been serious friction between the insular legislature and Governor .General Wood. The independence faction in the islands sent a mission, consisting of Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Insular House, to the U. S. last Fall (TIME, Nov. 19). Senor Roxas presented his case to the President, and last week received a plain-spoken answer in the form of a letter. Said the President...
Characterizing the rule of Governor-General Wood as "militaristic and reactionary, and in complete defiance of every American tradition", Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, and Special Commissioner to the United States, in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter, declared that Governor Wood's actions have "broken asunder all the bonds of concord that have united Americans and Filipinos since the bloody struggle...
...Representatives last week, when Congressman Frear of Wisconsin presented a resolution for investigation of the Wood regime. Secretary of War Weeks, on behalf of the Administration, has several times previously expressed support of General Wood. Now there will be pressure on the Administration from two sides-from the Filipinos (Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Philippine House, is now in Washington for that purpose) and from the Republican insurgents of whom Mr. Frear...