Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manila last week, U. S. High Commissioner Paul Yories McNutt, Indiana's onetime (1933-37) Governor, was busy being polite to polite Philippine President Manuel Quezon. During his five months' junket to the U. S. and Europe Commissioner McNutt had attempted to demote President Quezon down the Manila coast list (TIME, May 31). Meanwhile in the U. S., Commissioner McNutt's good friend and political ally, Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton, was busy announcing that High Commissioner McNutt would make in 1940 an ideal candidate for President...
...settled four inches. Most of Manila's buildings, designed to withstand quakes, are built of bolted timbers. They stood the shock better than old Spanish stone houses and churches outside the town, many of whose walls and roofs crumbled. Before total damage had been estimated, Commonwealth-President Manuel Quezon-who had been dressing for a banquet in his Malacanan palace when the earthquake struck-proclaimed a state of emergency, threatened severe penalties for anyone who tried to utilize the coincidence of the earthquake and the influx of refugees for profiteering...
Everything was nicely in hand, read the reports to the President. Thirty Panama troopers with machine guns were already guarding the treasure, half of which under Panama law belonged to the Government. Determined that there should be no hitch President Arosemena ordered his trusty chief of police, Colonel Manuel Pino, to take five planes and fly to David-nearest possible landing ground to the mine-to bring the bullion to Panama...
...whence he had come, on a special train bearing 38 Senators and a large delegation from the House. The train also carried all 4,000 floral offerings, including wreaths from the Democratic National Committee and the Jefferson Islands Club, from Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President, from President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines, from Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito...
...half-staff early last week. This marked the first anniversary of the assassination in Madrid last year of Rightist Martyr No. i, onetime Finance Minister Jose Calvo Sotelo who was taken-for-a-ride by uniformed guards of the Madrid Government. Its head then as now was President Don Manuel Azana who last week was in Valencia. Few days after the Rightists mourned Calvo Sotelo, they celebrated with bullfights and fiestas last week the day on which they rose against Republicans, Socialists, Anarchists and Communists of Spain. Last week British-owned ore mines near Bilbao (now Rightist) had taken from...