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President Coolidge received President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate, Senator Sergio Osmena of the Resident* Commissioner Pedro Guevara, for nearly an hour (see TERRITORIES...
...outstanding native statesmen of the Philippines-President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate and Senator Sergio Osmena, his sphinxlike senior partner in the Nationalist Party-arrived in Washington to see President Coolidge. They had bundled themselves up in unwonted overcoats crossing the Pacific to a chilly continent. But they had smiled confidently on the trip because when they left Manila (TIME, Oct. 17). They had heard that President Coolidge favored transferring the Philippines from military rule under the War Department to civilian administration under a special bureau of the Interior Department. This transfer was second only to Island Independence...
...mestico (half caste), exhibits his Chinese extraction in his importunable demeanor, impeccable manners and enduring patience. He has not always agreed with his headlong young friend, being content to guide Filipino destinies slowly as Speaker of the Assembly for almost 20 years. He would be more content than Manuel Quezon to see Philippine Independence come in three steps instead of at a bound. The three steps might be: 1) Civilian administration by the U. S.; 2) "Philippine Free State" with a U. S. High Commissioner; 3) Independence...
...back against a wall. A moment later eight rifles spat fire and lead. The young man fell forward, dead. He was 28-year-old Alfredo Jauregui who, a week before, had drawn a black ballot† that meant death for the murder in 1917 of General Jose Manuel Pando, onetime President of Bolivia...
Four men convicted of assassinating (in 1917) General Jose Manuel Pando, onetime (1899-1904) President of Bolivia, were gathered together at La Paz to draw lots to see who among them should die for the crime. Loud and long did the daughters of the murdered man cry out that all four were guilty. But the court directed that the lottery proceed. Three white and one black ballot were placed into a black hat-the black one signified death...