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...citizens in the islands have always felt that independence would be unqualified disaster. More & more Filipinos were coming to believe that it would not be an unqualified blessing. Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate, talked seriously with the visitors about continuing some sort of ties with the U. S. -tariff favors, for example. The Philippine Sugar Association, the Philippine-American Trade Association, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and numerous local politicians all talked to the same tune...
Died, Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling y Loret de Mola, 62, Cuban Ambassador to the U. S.; of asthma; in Washington. In 1932 he broke with Dictator Machado and on his overthrow in 1933 became successively Ambassador to the U. S.. Secretary of State. Provisional President, and Ambassador to the U. S. Last May he won a life-long fight when he became Cuba's sole signatory to the abrogation of the Platt Amendment...
...Mackay radio station at Los Angeles last fortnight went a halting message from the tight little tuna-fishing schooner Santa Amaro, Manuel Rodriguez, Master. The Santa Amaro, lying off Marchena Island, one of the northernmost of the Galapagos group, had exciting news to report. Passing bleak, barren, fresh-waterless Marchena that morning her crew spied a small skiff hauled high on the rocks of the shore. Swinging closer they saw a tall pole and fluttering from it a few limp rags. On shore they found a dead seal with strips of flesh hacked from it, a few bits of iguana...
...Mexican Indian was Manuel Ponce who contributed Chapultepec, a suave Frenchy picture of the cypress woods which surround the castle in Mexico City where the ill-fated Maximilian once lived. The cowboy was Harl McDonald, now a teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, who meant his Santa Fé Trail to describe the trek of New England pioneers across the blistering desert. The McDonald pioneers were not a hardy lot and their mood, more often than not, was touched with the Russian melancholy of Tchaikovsky...
...confused with Señor Quezon's Secretary Manuel Nieto (see above...