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These basic circumstances and conditions last week engaged the earnest attention of the U.S. and Mexican Governments. Most particularly, they engaged the attention and talents of Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho...
...Engaged. Manuel Ignatius Prado, 22, Oxford-Harvard-educated Manhattan bank clerk, son of Peru's President Manuel Prado; and Natalie Kitchin, 20, San Francisco socialite; in San Francisco...
...little success, to revive racing in Mexico, Pagliai got the ear of Wall Street Financier Ben ("Sell 'em-Short") Smith, who had developed an interest in horse racing by taking planeloads of friends to Kentucky Derbies. Assured of Smith's enthusiasm, Pagliai then convinced polo-playing President Manuel Avila Camacho that horse racing would benefit Mexican horse breeding, Good Neighbor relations and tourist trade...
From Washington last week, ailing, exiled Philippine President Manuel Quezon sent his countrymen advice not to worry if they had to yield their property to the Japs. Quezon proclaimed Filipino adherence to a United Nations declaration pledging the return of all looted property in Axis-conquered countries to the rightful owners...
...declaration had gone by almost unnoticed when it was issued early in January; to Manuel Quezon and all Filipinos who heard of it, it was patent good news. After one year of occupation, the Jap had seized almost everything of value: railroads, utilities, industrial plants, mines, rice and sugar plantations. Some were taken outright; others were acquired by a show of legality, by stock purchases paid for with paper yen. Craftily the Jap had laid plans to hold economic control of the islands, even though he should lose...