Word: mestizo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Osmeña, the Chinese mestizo, just sat by and waited. He let his wife do the campaigning. Last week he got some help from the U.S. Congress: the Senate upped the Philippine sugar quota; the House passed a bill that would give the Philippines $620,000,000 for rehabilitation. The Philippine economy had improved; the cost of living had taken a moderate...
...Grey Bird. In Washington, Sergio Osmeña, the shrewd, quiet, Chinese mestizo, became President of the Philippines. For almost a half century Osmeña, like Quezon, had dreamed of power. But the impressionable Filipinos, fascinated by Quezon's impassioned oratory, his imperious political scheming, the glitter of his presence, thought of Sergio Osmeña as a grey bird flying beside a brightly plumaged jungle cock. Osmeña accepted his defeats quietly, finally became Manuel Quezon's political friend, came with him to the U.S. as confidant and Vice President after the fall...
...frail little man, a Spanish mestizo with burning eyes and a sharp tongue, lay seriously ill in his suite at Washington's Shoreham Hotel. Philippine President Manuel Quezon waited word of his future...
Downtown in the refurbished red brick mansion which houses the Philippine Government in Exile, another man, a Chinese mestizo with inscrutable eyes and cautious tongue, also waited-Sergio Osmeña, Vice President of the Philippines, successor to Manuel Quezon under the Philippine Constitution...
High up in the thin, cold air of the Bolivian Andes, shrewd Mestizo Simón I. Patiño built for himself and his family an empire of tin. It was founded on the peon labor of mountain Indians whose lowly wage offset the high cost of transporting Patiño's ores to world markets. The mines Patiño developed from the original holding he acquired from a debt-ridden Portuguese made him one of the richest men in the world. But last week the manner in which he got his wealth returned, to plague...