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From that sounding board Quezon began to talk. He clashed with U. S. Governors General over prerogatives. Once he cried: "I would rather live under a government run like hell by Filipinos than one run like heaven by Americans." His feud with Governor General Leonard Wood was said to have hastened Wood's death; it laid fiery Quezon low with tuberculosis. Recovered, he got his political machete out again. By this time his campaign for Philippine independence had won support in parts of the U. S. A powerful sugar lobby and many a U. S. producer wanted competitive Philippine...
...best pupils Dancing Teacher Arthur Murray ever had was wry-faced little Manuel Luis Quezon (pronounced kay-son'), President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Gay, nimble Mr. Quezon, who one night took out 16 Murray instructresses all at once, quickly became a tango expert. To the U. S. State Department, and to U. S. citizens with large investments in the Philippines, Mr. Quezon has been a tango expert ever since-and his dizzying cavortings have given them more than one headache. Last week, as Japan went into new and ominous activity the eyes of the U. S. were...
...Quezon first bobbed into view in 1909-a small, nervous, sallow man with bushy eyebrows, who had gone to Washington as Resident Commissioner of the newly acquired Philippines. A Spanish-Malay mestizo, born of schoolteaching par ents on the island of Luzon, he had fought in the insurrectionist army against Spain, afterwards against the U. S. invaders. Full of energy, brilliant, brittle, as unpredictable as a hummingbird, he spent seven years reminding the U. S. Government of its promises to set the islands free. When he left Washington he had in his pocket the Jones Act, which did not give...
...years as High Commissioner to the Philippines, Paul Vories McNutt returned to the U. S. as a burning apostle of this view. The present High Commissioner, Francis Bowes Sayre, is a rabid convert to it. And it is a good bet that some time soon Filipino President Manuel L. Quezon will publicly beg the U. S. to postpone Philippine independence beyond 1946 and keep Japan...
...talents in Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Although the plot demands that Filipinos be portrayed as terrified by Moro juramentados (dreadnought Mohammedans to whom killing a Christian is a sure passport to heaven), a few such scenes were deleted by Producer Goldwyn, at the request of Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon. Excellent shots: Moros catapulting from trees over a stockade to steal ammunition; Canavan encountering the head of a companion (Broderick Crawford) who encountered some Moros in the jungle...