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Newshawks found Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate, sick abed with a hot compress about his small brown neck. The peppery little man hunched up out of his sheets to bark: "It is not an independence bill at all. It is a tariff bill directed against our products. It is an immigration bill directed against our labor...
...Senate's action was a shock to Manuel Quezon and many of his Nacionalista (majority) party. When Woodrow Wilson was his good friend, "The Patrick Henry of the Philippines" had his best chance of wrenching his land unconditionally free. In '99 and after, he had shed blood for independence. Now, smoking cigarets by the chain system, he found independence under the terms set by Congress "unjust and absurd." But with racial shrewdness (he is quarter-Spanish) he decided to hold his fire until the independence commission returns to present its arguments to the Legislature. The coming regular legislative...
When his three chief revolutionists arrived in Biloxi, Miss., on the Zemurray yacht one cold December night in 1910 on their way to Honduras, Samuel Zemurray went below and cooked a dinner for Manuel Bonilla, next President of Honduras. He left his coat over the shoulders of shivering General Bonilla. Said he: ''Hell Manuel, I've shot the roll on you. I might as well shoot the coat too." He is now shooting his roll on United Fruit and few expect him to lose...
...stock, which has just paid a 50% dividend, dumped 2,000 shares at 50 centavos (25?) below the market quotation, so alarmed were they over the economic consequences of independence. The Philippine Legislature, sitting as an Independence Commission, wrangled and haggled from dawn to dark over H. R. 7233. Manuel Quezon, President of the Senate, denounced it as an insincere "joke," claimed it was foisted on the islands by National City Bank's investment in Cuban sugar. Cries of "Immediate independence or nothing!" rang through the chamber. Finally the legislature resolved to cable its Washington representatives that...
While 18 Royalist henchmen of Spain's late, Royalist Dictator Primo de Rivera were being tried in one end of the Cortes Building last week, Royalist Deputies roasted short, stocky Republican Premier Manuel Azana in the Cortes Chamber, called him "a second Primo de Rivera-another Dictator...