Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Diego Manuel Chamorro, President since 1921 of Nicaragua, at San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, after a long illness, from diabetes...
...history of the movement also is tolerably clear. The trouble arose over the interpretation of the Jones Insular Government Act. Manuel Querzon, at the head of an amalgamation of all the secret societies, wanted the executive made responsible to the Philippine legislature, not to this country. Perhaps the nature of the movement has since changed. At any rate the Philippine delegate to the United States has stated that the hostile legislature was opposed merely to the person of General Wood...
Time brings little change in the attitude of the Filipinos toward Governor General Wood, and it is concerning the causes of this attitude that Mr. Guevara will speak. He himself is a leader in the opposition party; in fact, he is second only to Manuel Quezon in the leadership...
...evening before the election Manuel Quezon was ill, but Osmena was campaigning in the San Nicolas district. About eight o'clock Osmena and several speakers of his party mounted a platform to address a crowd. The audience was mostly Democratic and howled them down. They had dinner on the platform and continued their unsuccessful efforts to speak all through the night. Not until seven o'clock next morning did they give...
...Carlo Company now has played for more than two weeks, and has given ample demonstration of its capabilities. Its principals are better this season than last. It retains most of its stars, some of these of wide reputation-Anna Fitziu, Alice True Gentle, Marie Rappold, Sophie Charlebois, Bianca Saroya, Manuel Salazar, Taki Miura. It has made some noteworthy additions-the tenors Tommasini and O'Moore, the soprano Consuelo Escobar. Its productions are generally " good "- voices, orchestra, chorus...