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During these busy political years, Manuel Quezon gained a wife, four children, a valuable political ally in the person of Sergio Osmena (now Vice President of the Commonwealth), the Grand Mastery of the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of the Philippine Islands, the presidency of the Nationalista Consolidado Party which runs the Philippines almost as Tammany used to run New York City, the presidency of Manila Railroad Co. and Manila Hotel, a trusteeship in the University of the Philippines and a membership in the Wack Wack Golf Club. He has also earned the esteem of thousands of Nationalist Filipinos...
...combination of Communists. Sakdalistas and miscellaneous advocates of immediate independence cast less than 250.000 votes. Twice that many went to small, dressy Manuel Quezon, "Father of Philippine Independence," who for the past 20 years has been running the islands' politics pretty much as he and Senator Sergio Osmena chose. Osmena will be inaugurated Vice President when Quezon takes office...
...last week Sergio Osmena and Manuel Quezon, the two great leaders of the Philippine Nationalist party, marched into the Philippine legislature arm in arm. Their appearance in that fashion was greeted with surprise and applause, for they had been political enemies since a year ago when Congress offered the Philippines freedom and Senor Quezon succeeded in defeating acceptance of the offer...
...applause was as nothing compared to the demonstrations next day when the legislature in joint session adopted a resolution written by Senores Quezon and Osmena, promising "appreciation and everlasting gratitude to the President and Congress of the U. S. and to the American people." The resolution was adopted on the 36th anniversary of the day when Commodore Dewey sailed into Manila Bay and made Swiss cheese of the impotent royal navy of His Imperial, 12-year-old Majesty, Alfonso XIII, last King of Spain. It marked the formal acceptance on behalf of the Philippines of the new offer of freedom...
Object of their merriment was Mrs. Longworth's halfbrother, Theodore Roosevelt. Back from a capable administration of Porto Rico, he had been appointed Governor General of the Philippines, was now posing for sound films with brown Sergio Osmena, president pro tem. of the Philippine Senate. With him to his new post was going his daughter Grace, 20, who takes after her mother and who has been studying typing and shorthand to fit herself to be one of her father's secretaries...