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Teetering back & forth in his brocaded swivel chair, strolling on his balcony overlooking the Pasig River, Manuel Quezon last week could see no serious opposition at home. He had long since danced rings around his onetime friend and later rival, Sergio Osmena. But from outside, the threatening forces crowded-forces which might also concern the U. S. The question an anxious State Department pondered was where Tango Dancer Quezon, with the Philippines in his arms, would whirl next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Prelude to Dictatorship? | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...dirty Pasig River flowed under part of the Malacañan Palace (an overgrown Filipino stilt-house) in the Philippines. From the porch the Taft boys went swimming, and there Bob was stung by a jellyfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Up from Plenty | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Peace on the Pasig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Peace on the Pasig | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...whether dictatorial little President Quezon had quietly arranged it as a window dressing to prove to visiting U. S. officials that parliamentary government functions in the Philippines, it was only one of several matters which kept him busy last week. For while all was apparently peaceful along the Pasig-the muddy little stream that flows through Manila-Manuel Quezon was busily heating several political irons in the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Peace on the Pasig | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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