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Governor General Frank Murphy lay ill at Wnite Sulphur Springs, W. Va. President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate was in Manhattan. Acting Governor General Joseph R. Hayden was far north in the Igorot Country on an inspection tour. Major General Frank Parker, commanding the Philippine District, was vacationing in China. A better opportunity for an uprising could scarcely have presented itself to disadvantaged Filipino hotheads. Last week they took it, with the bloodiest consequences of any Philippine revolt in the past 15 years...
Last week six beige-colored gentlemen assembled in the White House offices to see a more important endorsement put upon their Constitution. President Roosevelt, with Secretary of War Dern at his right and Manuel Quezon (probably first President of the Philippine Commonwealth) at his left, squiggled his name in ordinary ink to a document certifying that the Constitution complies with U. S. demands...
...UKRAINE, or FIEND GUTS TOT, he is simply doing a job according to the dictates of space and the special characteristics of his newspaper. In all likelihood he neither knows nor cares that he is "writing in a new tense, unknown before headlines were invented." Last week one Dr. Manuel Rosenblum, language teacher at Buffalo Collegiate Centre, gravely announced that newspapers have created the "sigmatic present" tense. Sigmatic means the addition of the letter "s" to any word...
...four Latin nightclubs put on shows until 3 in the morning. In a public wedding one Carl H. Burg, dressed as a Spanish caballero, was married to one Margaret E. Clark, clad in a wedding gown of tobacco leaves. A Cuban girl named Pilar Farfante and a man named Manuel Perez won the cigarmaking contest, she rolling her two cigars in 4 min. 35 4/5 sec., he in 2/5 sec. less. The decks were cleared for Dancer Nicki Leoni, who appeared in a disappointingly simple evening gown of native design. As the music grew faster and the dance grew hotter...
Last week Mrs. Wright appeared in Supreme Court in Manhattan, accompanied by one George Hoy, one Gabrielle Grey and Manuel Del Moya, "attache" of the Dominican Consulate. Taking the stand before Referee John P. Cohalan, crusty oldtime Tammanyman, she asked pertly: "Your Honor, may I ask you a question...