Word: osmena
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...Assembly and President of the Senate respectively. They wished a part in the executive end of the Government. Governor General Harrison allowed the formation of a new body, the Council of State. This is comprised of the members of the Cabinet and the two officers above named. Osmena was elected Vice President of this body. It has no legal standing. Nevertheless, it took over the duties of the Cabinet, which for practical purposes ceased to exist, and Osmena was practically Prime Minister...
With the coming of Governor General Wood, less indulgent to the Filipinos' desires than his predecessor, Francis Burton Harrison, it looked as if trouble was brewing. Osmena resigned from the Assembly, thereby losing his place on the Council of State, and was elected to the Senate. Quezon became Prime Minister, that is, Vice President of the Council of State. When that body resigned recently, it was Quezon who delivered the resignation. Inasmuch as he was not a member of the Cabinet, he could not, theoretically, resign for that body...
...Osmena, it is thought, may have something up his sleeve. He had got out of the Council of State before the trouble began. If Quezon's protest as Osmena may intend that it shall, the crafty Osmena may be in a position to seize the reins of power...
Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena carry the Philippine politics more or less in their political vest-pockets. Quezon is a Spanish-Filipino, fiery and magnetic Osmena a Chinese-Filipino,. coolheaded, sphinxlike...