Word: aguinaldo
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Manuel Quezon was a law student at Santo Tomas University in Manila (oldest under the U. S. flag) when handsome young Emilio Aguinaldo, tired of the evasion of U. S. officials who, he thought, should recognize him as President of the Philippine Provisional Republic, started a revolt to run the none too numerous U. S. expeditionary force out of the Islands. Since the U. S. authorities were chary of all Filipinos at that time, and hence offering no jobs in the Island Government to brown men, Manuel Quezon went into the bush for a while as a major on Aguinaldo...
...chief reason that comparatively few Filipinos went to the polls last week to elect the first President of their Commonwealth was that the result seemed already in the bag. For Bishop Gregorio Aglipay, leader-founder of the Independent Catholic Church of the Philippines, and for General Emilio Aguinaldo, who has always felt the U. S. double-crossed him after he helped wrest the islands from Spain in 1898. a combination of Communists. Sakdalistas and miscellaneous advocates of immediate independence cast less than 250.000 votes. Twice that many went to small, dressy Manuel Quezon, "Father of Philippine Independence...
...Murphy of Detroit. The way he and the constabulary kept peace at the polls came in for high commendation from white residents, who were additionally encouraged by Senor Quezon's pledge to "follow the precedents set by the American Governors General during more than three decades." Peppery President-reject Aguinaldo declared the election returns "incredible," swore that he was "not through yet. . . . I have no doubt that electoral manipulations, shielded by official protection, did not permit the people to freely express their will...
...after work the President took the opportunity of inspecting for the first time a gift sent him eight months ago. It was a carved table 10½ ft. in diameter from Filipino Emilio Aguinaldo. Its highly polished top was made of a single piece of hardwood, Philippine red narra. Around its rim were twelve drawers, for the President, Vice President and each member of the Cabinet. Unfortunately, in rebuilding the White House offices the doorway of the Cabinet room was not made large enough to admit the table. Last week with difficulty it was maneuvered into the public lobby...
...talk was old Emilio Aguinaldo, the patriot who more than a generation ago staged his insurrection against U. S. imperialism. He asked for freedom, not in ten years but much sooner. Senator Tydings turned on him with a curt: "God gave us our brains for thought...