Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly before the Cuban Senate passed the Tarafa Bill, General Carlos Garcia-Velez (son of the General Garcia of " message-to-Garcia " fame), President of the Veterans' and Patriots' Association, departed hastily from Havana into the lesser known parts of Cuba. With him disappeared General Manuel Despaigne, Treasurer of the organization, who was Secretary of the Treasury in the reform Cabinet until he was expelled last Spring by President Zayas. Dr. Oscar Soto, Secretary of the Veterans' Organization, also went into hiding...
Said the Speaker of the House, Manuel Roxas: " We have encroached upon the rights of the Governor General because in that guise liberties are won." Said the President of the Senate, Manuel Quezon: " Our object is to reduce the Governor General to a mere figurehead. It is unpatriotic for any Filipino to stand by Governor Wood in his policies...
Another step in the diplomatic recognition of Mexico was consummated in Washington when Secretary of State Hughes, Charles Beecher Warren and John Barton Payne signed a convention for a General Claims Commission. Señor Manuel C. Tellez, Charge d'Affaires for Mexico, signed the convention for his country. The commission created by this convention and another for Special Claims will settle the claims of citizens of each country against the other...
...Department, much petitioned by Filipinos who dislike Governor General Wood's rule of their islands, was again jolted by the Philippine political drama. Without warning the Department suddenly received a telegram from Manuel Quezon (recently resigned President of the Philippine Senate) protesting because General Wood had appointed an ex-convict Mayor of Manila...
Portugal became a Republic on October 5, 1910, after a short revolution which deposed King Manoel II, head of the Braganza-Coburg House. King Manuel is still alive and lives in England...