Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore last week harbored the jolliest of patients. He was Senor Manuel Luis Quezon of the Philippines. The President of the Philippine Senate and No. 1 politico of the Islands kept the entire staff in stitches, rumpled all kinds of hospital rules. Senor Quezon, 56, had plenty to keep his spirits up: his longtime dream of Philippine independence from the U. S. was well on the way toward reality; he confidently expects to be the Islands' first President; he had kept Senora Quezon in Manila from worrying by entering the hospital under the name of Pedro...
...Manuel Quezon operated by H. H. Young Oct. 26. Patient en route operating room was very good spirits joking with intimate friends. Spinal anesthesia with novocaine was used also oxygen inhalation by mask. Although fully conscious throughout operation, Quezon stood same excellently, talking at times with surgeon, physicians regarding progress operation. Half hour before a good dose morphine was injected yet he seemed unaffected stating he fully conscious. Quezon had insistently requested be placed under general anesthesia order be fully unconscious. This, however, not granted for his own good as it was pre-arranged use only local anesthetic order avoid...
Chief revolter was Francisco Largo Caballero, who claims to be a purer Marxist than Stalin. As allies Largo Caballero had beguiled the pinkish Socialists of onetime Premier Manuel Azaña and the sectional patriots of perennially seceding Catalonia. Señor Lerroux first smashed the Catalan revolt (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week he turned on the pure class war provided by Largo Caballero. As fast as Lerroux jailed anarchist committees, new ones arose. Revolt kept ducking for cover, popping out in a new place, like a prairie gopher. It made soldiers and police trigger-nervous but they remained stanch...
...piled up a terrific Conservative majority. Barrios fell. First Lerroux, then Samper became Premier. Month after month Socialists, Syndicalists, Communists have seen the country swing further and further to the Right. There is definite threat of a semi-Fascist dictatorship. Radicals of all complexions from the rose-pink of Manuel Azana to the black anarchism of innumerable hotheads joined for a final attempt at revolution...
Mexico has no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, but Mexican Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Puig Casauranc was asked by the three Great Powers what would be the attitude of Mexico toward Russia's entry in the League. Vexed, Dr. Puig Casauranc revealed the pressure thus put upon him to correspondents. "I replied to the three powers," he snapped, "that Mexico, in ceaseless pursuit of international cooperation for the safeguarding of peace, hopes that the admission of Russia will strengthen the League's authority." Asked if this meant that Mexico might soon resume diplomatic relations with Russia. Dr. Puig Casauranc...