Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most noteworthy White House caller of the week was handsome Philippine High Commissioner Paul McNutt. Colonel McNutt had just made a radio speech strongly recommending that the current plan to give the Philippines independence in 1946 be reconsidered. The proposal had been applauded by Philippine President Manuel Quezon, who, in his public utterances at least, has heretofore been advocating independence not in 1946, but earlier. At the White House Colonel McNutt enlarged on his thesis that "if the Filipinos want it, an indefinite extension of American sovereignty" would be advantageous. The President, said Colonel McNutt, was favorably impressed...
...battalions in Spain) that Ernest Hemingway was a contributor, not an editor. By last week Ken's direction had largely devolved on Messrs. Smart & Gingrich with the assistance of Messrs. Hemingway, Seldes, John Spivak (Europe Under the Terror), Raymond Gram Swing (Forerunner of American Fascism), Critic Burton Rascoe, Manuel Komroff, Sportswriter Herb Graffis...
...Best actor: Spencer Tracy as the bravo fisherman, Manuel, in Captains Courageous...
...meeting there, felt its floors reverberate to the rhythmic pounding of a thousand Corybantic Negro feet. Many a Harlemite believes the black "God's" following is dwindling. Last week Father Divine's chief kingdom, still apparently in good shape, was sold to a black rival-"Bishop" Charles Manuel ("Daddy") Grace. Assessed at $38,000 and owned by a Manhattan bank, the kingdom was first offered to the Divineites, but their agent, named "Blessed Purin Heart," balked at paying more than $16,000. Bishop Grace paid down $2,000 in cash, contracted to pay $18,000 more within...
Born Marcilino Manuel Graca in Portugal, "Daddy" Grace is a tall, dark, long-haired religionist who believes in the orthodox Lord, preaches a Pentecostal faith with some refinements of his own invention. His headquarters and his respectable-looking home are in Washington, but in the past seven years his greatest success has been in Baltimore, fourth largest Negro city in the U. S. "Bishop" Grace calls his sect the "House of Prayer For All People,"* has claimed from 300,000 to 1,000,000 followers. In his 100 churches, pastors exhort the faithful for contributions, and during services, which lean...