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...which has just paid a 50% dividend, dumped 2,000 shares at 50 centavos (25?) below the market quotation, so alarmed were they over the economic consequences of independence. The Philippine Legislature, sitting as an Independence Commission, wrangled and haggled from dawn to dark over H. R. 7233. Manuel Quezon, President of the Senate, denounced it as an insincere "joke," claimed it was foisted on the islands by National City Bank's investment in Cuban sugar. Cries of "Immediate independence or nothing!" rang through the chamber. Finally the legislature resolved to cable its Washington representatives that it was "willing...
Spearhead of the independence movement in the U. S. during recent months has been Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate and chief of a special independence mission for that purpose to the U. S. Like rivals who would not let each other out of their sight, Mr. Quezon and Secretary Hurley will cross the Pacific on the same steamer, land in Manila together. But between them is no personal animosity. Secretary Hurley took Mr. Quezon to the White House where the little brown gentleman spent 15 minutes bidding President Hoover a chatty farewell...
...Republican nominee when the Fergusons won the governorship of Texas in 1924, he was recommended to the White House by no less an ardent Democrat than Texas Senator Tom Connally. Porto Ricans proclaimed the good fortune by Filipinos to get such a Vice Governor as Dr. Butte. Impressed, Politicos Quezon and Osmena in Manila announced that they were quite satisfied. President Hoover felt that he might well congratulate himself. ¶ "We need to be more humble," President Hoover was told at Quaker meeting by Miss Muriel Lester, London slum worker. ¶ With his special message on the World Court written...
Besides Big Business, the Archbishop of Manila is charged with looking to the education of his island flock. Principal institution is the Atemeo de Manila, where such political leaders as Manuel Quezon have been educated, where the big, florid, blue-eyed figure of Archbishop O'Doherty is a familiar sight either walking in church-stateliness or riding in one of the Islands' comparatively few luxurious motors...
...whose previous chairman (James E. O'Neil) figured in the Oil Scandals and is still a fugitive from justice. Less familiar in the Kaw country would be Vincent Massey, the Canadian "Minister to the U. S.; Jan Ciechanowski, the Polish Minister; and the two Filipino leaders, Manuel Quezon and Pedro Guevara-all attending as observers...