Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Poictesme again, the land of Dom Manuel and Jurgen, but a Poictesme of later date?Poictesme in the last years of Louis the Sun-King...
...Manuel's blood and Jurgen's ran in the veins of Florian de Puysange?a heroic but discomfortable inheritance. It did not help him to live easily in this world...
With the approach of the Congressional Session, there also approached Señor Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, who was on his way to the U. S. to tell the War Department and members of Congress why the Philippines should be made independent...
Hardly had Señor Roxas set sail for the U. S., however, when Manuel Quezon and Antonio de los Alas (who is acting as Speaker of the House, in Roxas' absence) agreed with General Wood on the appointment of officers to the National Coal Co. This was apparently a direct reversal of Quezon's policy of absolutely non-coöperation which he and his Collectivist followers adopted. Reports came of a near-rapprochement between Quezon and Wood. " Ah," said the prophets, " Fair and warmer...
...Philippine Independence Commission?which is to the Philippine Legislature as Mr. Hyde is to Dr. Jekyll?chose Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Insular House of Representatives, as a Commission of one. The Commission will go to Washington to explain to the War Department the Filipino side of the Legislature's controversy with Governor General Wood. The Commission will have four technical advisers...