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...World War in behind-the-scenes shots, many of which came from the cinematographic archives of the nations participating. Proof of the ability of the picture to "speak for itself" is given by the many slashing, booming, gorey minutes during which the e x p e r t commentator, Pedro de Cordoba, remains silent...
...plenty to keep his spirits up: his longtime dream of Philippine independence from the U. S. was well on the way toward reality; he confidently expects to be the Islands' first President; he had kept Senora Quezon in Manila from worrying by entering the hospital under the name of Pedro Lopez; he had tormented the billion-dollar American Telephone & Telegraph Co. by attempting to charge to unaccredited "Pedro Lopez" $300 telephone calls to Senora Quezon. And above all, Urologist Hugh Hampton Young had just removed from the left Quezon ureter a good-sized stone shaped like Senor Quezon's middle...
...will elect Lopez." After the balloting, President-Elect Lopez obtained what looked to Colombians like the tacit endorsement of President Roosevelt by paying an elaborate goodwill visit to Washington (TIME, July 9). With Banker Alfonso Lopez, as he marched in to be inaugurated last week, was his father, Banker Pedro Lopez. Said the new President in his inaugural address: ''I promise active co-operation with all countries, but especially with those in the Western Hemisphere...
...Married, Pedro E. Lay Bacardi, 29, rum heir; and Loretta Monahan, 29, one-time telephone operator; in Troy...
With the San Francisco general strike out of the way, the National Longshoremen's Board headed by Archbishop Hanna last week got down to its original business?settling the Longshoremen's strike. Its emissaries flew packages of ballots to Seattle, Portland, San Pedro and a dozen lesser ports, stood by supervising an election of the International Longshoremen's Association on the question of whether the union would agree to let the Board arbitrate the issues of the strike. Then the emissaries posted back by plane carrying the sealed ballot boxes...