Word: sergio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Emilio Fortes Gil had announced that he would leave Mexico City for the national palace at San Luis Potosi that evening, which meant an irritating postponement of negotiations unless the message arrived at once. Meanwhile Secretary Sergio Montt, of the Chilean Embassy, was furiously decoding a cable received in his office from the Vatican. Hurrying to the palace he presented it to the Archbishop. It was Pope Pius XI's sanction of the plan of settlement, in clear, definite terms. A few hours later two statements were issued, one by President Fortes Gil, one by Archbishop Ruiz...
...prospect of a higher sugar duty brought to Washington agitated representatives of the Cuban producers. The proposal to limit the free entry of Philippine sugar to 500,000 tons per year accounted for the presence in Washington of Speaker Manuel Roxas of the Philippine House, President Pro Tempore Sergio Os-mena of the Philippine Senate, and Philippine Secretary of Agriculture Rafael Alunan. They had traveled 11,000 miles to enlist Secretary of State Stimson in a protest. The beet-sugar industry (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah) complains that it cannot meet competition from Cuba and the Philippines. To protect its market...
...Leader Sergio Osmena of the Philippine Senate, long an agitator for Island independence and an old-time opponent of "foreign" capital in the Philippines, applauded the Stimson document; said that the law changes suggested should not be difficult to effect. This was good news to such outreaching U. S. interests as the Firestones of Ohio (rubber) and doubtless Surveyor Hammond's Electric Bond & Share...
Richest native of the islands, an able lawyer (trained in Spain), politically independent of such professional agitators as Manuel Quezon, Sergio Osmena and Manuel Roxas, Lawyer Gabaldon intended to play a lone hand as George Washington of the Philippines. He planned, first of all, to see to it that his successor in Washington should be appointed by the Filipino Senate and not by Governor General Stimson. To effect this, he dated his resignation ahead to July 16, when the insular Senate will be in session. Secondly, he planned to enter the Filipino legislature on a straight Independence ticket. Thirdly...
...Stimson represents. But President Quezon intends to leave the Philippines soon, to become Resident Philippine Commissioner in Washington, where he can urge Philippine independence at the adamant doors of Congress instead of in the ears of his docile countrymen. He will be succeeded as Philippine Senate chief by Sergio Osmena, a more mature statesman and no agitator, no propagandist...