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...Full disclosure of the government's finances is an essential feature of democratic government." This counsel was offered to Chungking three years ago by an American friend and financial adviser, the late A. Manuel Fox, onetime U.S. Tariff Commissioner...
Married. Rosa Prado, 20, chic, Paris-born amateur flyer and horsewoman, only daughter of Peru's President Manuel Prado y Urgarteche; and Hugo Peter Parks, 24, tall, freckled, British-educated son of Peru's socialite Clubwoman Mercedes Gallagher Parks and U.S. Citizen Henry W. Parks; in Lima, Peru...
...Said Manuel F. Leon Guerrero: "They let us fish, then stole our fish and sold it back. They burned all our books. They made us take off our hats and bow when they went by. At first they would take our girls away and if they would not go to bed they would slap them and then take a big stick and beat them. Then the Japs brought in their own women...
Mexico is on its way to having as many international air routes as the U.S. has railroads. Since stocky, jut-jawed Maximino Avila Camacho (dollarwise brother of President Manuel) became Minister of Communications in 1941, U.S. air lines have been steadily thrusting into Mexico with direct international services, establishing Mexican operating subsidiaries for local routes...
...Then Manuel Quezon's funeral procession began, to the throb of muffled drums, the cadenced music of a military band. The casket was borne on a black-wheeled artillery caisson drawn by six white horses. Behind it marched mourners and battalions from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The procession wound its way to the highest hill in Arlington National Cemetery, not far from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, to a tomb beneath the grey steel mast of the U.S.S. Maine. There, to the measured boom of a 19-gun salute and the long, sweet notes of "Taps...