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...elected a member of the Philippine Assembly. In 1916 when the Organic Act of Congress, often called the Jones act, created a Filipino senate, he became one of 24 Filipino senators. In his party, which has continually advocated independence for the islands, he has ranked in leadership only to Manuel Quezon. He resigned his senatorship in order to represent his government at Washington...
...Weeks' Message. On the eve of the opening of the Legislature, the Governor General called its leaders to him, Manuel Quezon (President of the Senate), Speaker Roxas of the House and Senator Osmena, former Speaker. He read them Mr. Weeks' message. On behalf of the Coolidge Administration, it confirmed in whole and in part the legality of the Governor's acts protested by the Collectivist Party (TIME, July 30, Aug. 6). It said that there was no question except the legal question. Any hopes that Quezon and Osmena had of their attitude's favorable reception in Washington were completely dashed...
...Manuel, King of Portugal, who abdicated in 1910: "A despatch from Paris stated that I 'hold my own' there, described me as a welcome guest to highest political circles because of my shrewdness in observing, my constant correspondence with German, Italian, Spanish notables-a semi-aesthete, a brilliant conversationalist, an amusing and instructive host...
...Guevara is the Washington representative of the popular party of the Filippino assembly and next to Manuel Quegon is the foremost leader in his party. His party's friction with the Wood administration, which developed into an open breach nearly a month ago, has not lessened, but daily becomes rather more pronounced and more determined. As a result of winning for its candidate the senatorship of the district which contains Manila, the most important senatorial office in the Philippines, Guevara's party feels that it has the Philippines behind it in its policy of opposition to General Wood...
Died. Diego Manuel Chamorro, President since 1921 of Nicaragua, at San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, after a long illness, from diabetes...