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...58th birthday recently, Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon, who is for practical purposes political dictator of the Islands, released 30 Sakdalistas convicted for their part in the 1935 uprising and issued an executive order raising the minimum pay of laborers hired by the Government to 30 pesos ($15) a month. Last week the National Assembly was considering minimum wage and maximum hour laws aggressively pressed by Philippine Labor...
...evidence of the peculiar power of gold over Depression. The Philippines has not only a gold boom but also a mining stock boom, and last week its fine frenzy was augmented because it had virtually been given an official blessing by no less a person than strutty little Manuel Quezon, President of the Commonwealth...
This glorious sensation of sudden riches could not help being felt in high places. Fortnight ago, President Manuel Quezon with more moderation than most of his compatriots put his blessing on the boom: "In their mines the Philippines have a storage of great wealth. If reports of the Bureau of Science are justified I believe that our country is one of the richest in the world...
...lost behind the rising U. S. tariff wall; 3) the necessity to provide for self-defense, by universal military service, a trained reserve of 400,000 men; 4) a virtually empty treasury. Lest the National Assembly's opening be saddened, its political lord and master, President Manuel Quezon, spoke of these matters in relatively euphemistic terms, although he had to ask for lower income tax exemptions, higher surtaxes, school taxes, taxes on corporate profits, inheritances, luxuries, amusements, mines, transportation, land...
...Francisco last September a neatly planned interchange of letters with the White House evoked from Frank-lin Roosevelt the political catch-phrase of the season: The promise to U. S. business of a "breathing spell." In December, after intimately traveling through the month-old Philippine Commonwealth with President Manuel Quezon, Roy Howard again produced a front-page sensation by asserting that the Islands wanted, not full independence, but permanent commonwealth status. Three months later the snappy little publisher was inside the Kremlin, drawing from steely Dictator Joseph Stalin the hypothetical circumstances under which Russia would fight Japan...